Quotes about Aspiration

Everybody wants something.

If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.

We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

I've always known what I wanted. I've always wanted to be on top of that podium.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars through difficulties.)

The human spirit. The heroic in man. The aspiration and the fulfillment, both. Uplifted in its quest--and uplifting by its own essence. Seeking God--and finding itself. Showing that there is no higher reach beyond its own form....

I know what I want up to the age of two hundred. Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

The status was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it. All that Dagny wanted of life was contained in the desire to hold her head as he did.

to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay—that