Quotes About Aspirations

The middle classes, grown prosperous by the belated but staggering development of the industrial revolution and dazzled by the success of Bismarck's policy of force and war, had traded for material gain any aspirations for political freedom they may have had.

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The dreams of my country are no different from yours -- they are as big as the human heart.

When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

I am a jack-of-all-trades. I edit and teach and at times desire to be a clothing designer or an artist (one who doesn't draw or paint or sew) and I write everything but poetry and I am a mother and a social maniac and a misanthrope and a burgeoning self-help guru and a girl who wants to look pretty and a girl who wants to look sexy and a girl who wants to look girly and a woman in her middle forties who wishes not to look like anything at all, who wishes sometimes to vanish.

All our dreams begin in youth.

It must be quite hard when you're a parent and you find out that your children's dreams are nothing like the dreams you've had for them.

YA is about angst. Will I get that boy to like me? Will I lose the weight? Will I turn into a vampire if he just gives me a hickey? I'm an orphan! I'm a mind reader! I'm biracial! I'm gay! When I get out of high school, I'll move to New York City, where I'll find others like me, and then I'll be happy and I will have it all: a career, a family, good teeth, and takeout Chinese.

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

Essaie de ne jamais oublier les rêves. La vie, les gens, tous essaieront de t'empêcher d'être libre. La liberté, c'est un boulot de tous les jours. Un boulot à plein temps.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Yet after withdrawing from three wars in two generations—each begun with idealistic aspirations and widespread public support but ending in national trauma—America struggles to define the relationship between its power (still vast) and its principles.

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

Dreams seem to have a will of their own.

If Christians around the world were to suddenly renounce their personal agendas, their life goals and their aspirations, and begin responding in radical obedience to everything God showed them. the world would be turned upside down. How do we know? Because that's what first century Christians did, and the world is still talking about it.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

But how do schools help matters?" "They give the peasant fresh wants.

Wishes are for children," Jane Chatwin said. "I grew up.

It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.