Quotes About Aspiration

California, Royce noted, was a promise, but it was also a struggle for redemption in the face of failure.

If you were rich, and you were a dude, it really felt like if you just followed a certain number of steps, you could do pretty much whatever you wanted.

I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful things.

And, though it might be hard to believe now, I showed a fucking lot of promise.

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.

That's not a goal," Kit said. "Why? Because it's not yours? Which is better, Kit Meinem of Atyar? A single great victory, or a thousand small ones?

How pure your longing to be anything other than yourself.

Short on money, long on hope

There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be fluent in Spanish. Or go on that African safari you've read about since you were a kid. Or be as excited as you used to be about catching fireflies. I keep trying to find my answer to life - and it gets more elusive the older I get.

I languish around in my life, never quite doing what I set out to do. I am tired of being a silver medalist, and tired of fighting uphill battles that I only sort of win.

Our people, guided by the ideals of independence, peace and friendship, have been strengthening international solidarity and developing the relations of friendship and cooperation with the peoples of all countries who aspire to independence; they have been effecting multilateral exchange with all the countries that are friendly towards ours, on the principles of equality and mutual benefit.

The good qualities of a nation which are formed socially and historically in the struggle to shape the destiny of the country and nation have nothing in common with racial characteristics, nor are these qualities acquired by any special nation. Every nation is blessed with its good qualities and has the aspiration and desire, to preserve and promote them.

I wanted to be a teacher.

I'll admit that the idea of being adored for nothing but my face and my body has had an occasional appeal, in the way winning the lottery does. The difference is that I have a much better chance of winning the lottery.

They had a longing to move up and out, to be something bigger than they were born to.

the only difference between a successful person and a person who gets lost is that one of them stopped dreaming!

Equal rights and equal protection are the ideals and aspirations that made America a beacon of hope and leadership—an inspiration and a model nation. These are the real American values, or so I hope.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand's work unfavorably.

But ours is not a dystopia. Life is still tolerable and in some ways pleasant, with little amenities such as baseball continuing. However, we no longer think big. We no longer aspire to great things. We aspire to little more than just keeping life going.

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