Quotes About Aspiration

I want to buy me a hat with a golden feather & a book with the confessions of God in it

By emphasizing a deep root and strong foundation, the student can reach to the high heavens without fear of toppling over.

I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.

Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

You know what I like about George Bush? He makes me feel like I could be president, too. No, he does. He's like the first guy, like, from my reading level, you know -- the first guy, like, from my math class to finally go out and do something!

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.

dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so

Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives, and lifts our national spirit. So let us continue the journey.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

When I was ten, I told her about my plans to play football. Most mothers would try to talk their son out of such a notion, but Mom encouraged me.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

Inspiring kids to dream big is important to me. Today's kids will be carrying out Mars missions.

My young friend, why to poetry aspire? Don't court the muses, but adopt a trade, For literature is sadly underpaid.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

Whenever I let my mind wander, and wonder who I would like to have been if I had not been born C. Everett Koop, the person who comes to mind most frequently is Paul Brand.

You are never too old to dream a new dream or set another goal.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

I'll tell anyone who will listen," he said softly. "What I can't figure out is why everybody doesn't do it. Look for the best, I mean. It's easy, and it makes life go easier.

Carnegie structure.

It's easier to reach for the stars when you stand on the shoulders of giants.

Hope is the sum of the mental willpower and waypower that you have for your goals.

subalterns, when Sebastian bought his first commission

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

Danny Noonan I haven't even told my father I'm not gonna get that scholarship. I'm gonna end up working in a lumberyard the rest of my life. Ty Webb What's wrong with lumber I own two lumberyards. Danny Noonan I notice you don't spend too much time there. Ty Webb I'm not quite sure where they are.