Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.

Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others think possible.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

I hope to go on and on.

To dream the impossible dream, that is my quest.

I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.

I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)

I still want more from myself – a lot more.

Knowing that I can achieve more is what inspires me

One should always be desiring or hoping for something. When one can hope for that which one desires, one enjoys the greatest happiness of which our thinking apparatus is capable. To obtain what one has been desiring is the first step to the depths of sadness and even pain, from which one can never emerge. The sea still enchants me; I linger for three or four hours at a time on the jetty or at the edge of the cliffs. Impossible to tear oneself away. If I could lead such a life for a certain time, coupling it with some interesting occupation, I should enjoy excellent health.

My passion, commitment, resilience, and love for excellence always make me want to do things better and bigger.

You have to aspire to everything to have hopes of doing something.

Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing what such a thing ought to look like. But then I always have the hope that, if I persevere, it might one day happen. And this hope is nurtured every time something appears, a scattered, partial, initial hint of something which reminds me of what I long for, or which conveys a hint of it – although often enough I have been fooled by a momentary glimpse that then vanishes, leaving behind only the usual thing.