Quotes About Aspiration

The American Dream is a constant reminder that America's true nature and distinctive grandeur is in promising the common man, thr man on the make, a better chance to succeed here than common men enjoy anywhere else on earth. Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 269

Their plans were circumspect and small-time. They weren't dreaming of taking over the world.

When you study the type of careers that make others remark, "That's the type of job I want," this trait almost always plays a central role. Once you understand this value of control, it changes the way you evaluate opportunities, leading you to consider a position's potential autonomy as being as important as its offered salary or the institution's reputation.

Well, you just catch me where I go wrong," I shoot back, "but a Harvard education hasn't done much to get your little manuscript out to the world.

We are not obligated to provide everyone who comes to this country with a good life," Morgan went on. "We are obligated to provide them with a chance to attain that life, through discipline and hard work. That chance is more than they have anywhere else. That is why they keep coming.

I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

Where You Go Hereafter Depends upon What You Go After Here

Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's out of your control and it's awesome — and it's not a career path.

Remember, makeing your dream come true can take years, so don't give up the day job. Do pray for a lucky break.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Hubiera querido ser torero, pero solo llegué a Premio Nobel

Men dream of the unattainable, and sometimes even achieve it. But the house odds were always stacked against visionaries.

Lou Perlman dreamed he was on the threshold of a thrilling new life, even as he understood he was travelling steerage on the same old battered boat of wishful thinking.

It's his way of saying that dreams are more important than we can ever imagine-we just need to listen.

Desire without a plan is only a dream

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

To a young man who has in himself the magnificent possibilities of life, it is not fitting that he should be permanently commanded. He should be a commander. JAMES A. GARFIELD

This world," he had learned long before, "does not seem to be the place to carry out one's wishes.

She had discovered early that what we want out of life can change; that the important thing is to learn to recognize or even simply just to admit what we really want, and then to have the courage to reach for it.

People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So - no.'