aspiration quotes

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

I’m trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, ‚I’m different. I’m not just a comedian.‘ I’m trying to become a rock star.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

I always wanted more – more of everything.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.