Robert Southey Quotes

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

People come to L.A. because they're chasing that dream of a better life. That's why I came here, because I thought it would be a place where I would find other people like me; people who wanted to write, people who had a dream of being something else. And that proved to be true.

I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.

We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more godlike, that we do not become discouraged and lose hope.

If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.

It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

What one hopes for is always better than what one has.

Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I don't know if I will ever be satisfied but I will keep going until hopefully I am.

What motivates me is that the best is yet to come.

I'm constantly trying to figure out my life and what's next. I'm never satisfied with what I have.

I don't ever want to get caught in the moment where I'm satisfied.

Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

A dream shouldn't be measured by its size or scope, nor by the age or the experience of the dreamer, but rather by the passion, integrity and commitment of that dreamer to follow his or her heart

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.

If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming.

The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.