While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!” — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself. — Sabrina Carpenter Copy Share Image
Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals. — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
“On the energetic level, it often happens that the intensity and power of your aspirations are smaller than those of the doubts,… — Bianca Gaia Copy Share Image
We even have a music career. Our song 'Hold On,' charted on Billboard. I mean, we don't have aspirations to tour with… — Drew Scott Copy Share Image
“Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.” — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Everything in my life comes up a little shorter than I want it to be. I've got all these high aspirations for… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
American musicals are, for the most part, about boys, or boyish pursuits and aspirations - the fantasy of freedom and resolve -… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Despite my belief that somehow my work would get me where I wanted to be, there was still some kind of fathomless… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
“Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“All parents set out with expectations, hopes and dreams for their child. When a child is diagnosed with a health problem, these… — Sharon Dempsey Copy Share Image
For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you don’t have to ask… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“I carry more than dreams. There is so much in my head I wonder how I will ever get it out. How… — Romesh Gunesekera Copy Share Image
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where… — Anglican clergyman Copy Share Image
People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
What the American people hope - what they deserve - is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
“I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
