Inspirational Quotes on Aspiration

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

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

“I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.”

“There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses, --only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.”