Quotes About Aspiration

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the sea fearing man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny

What likely dazzled the Ambassador even more than her sophisticated facade was his sense that she was covertly angling toward something greater. "It's not what you are that counts," he famously declared, "but what people think you are.

Il mio voler sol di volere intende

I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.

I'd study the people around me for clues. Clues to figure out whom to emulate, how to dress, how to speak, how to act, how to dance. I'd grown up feeling unworthy and underloved. I wanted nothing more than to feel secure in myself—to feel that I was really good at something.

Another great moment was signing my first check, seeing all those zeroes. I'm thinking: Could you spend all those zeroes?

Every morning you have two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.

Big, bold visions have a way of inspiring teams

He wanted to appear bigger than he was because in his own mind, he already was.

It's not about failure it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

No, that is not what I want for you, my little girl. I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding heart, healthy in body and honest in mind.

test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

It's ironic: The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it's where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.

Es irónico: la cima es el lugar donde los que tienen mentalidad fija ansían estar, y sin embargo, es el lugar al que llegan –sin buscarlo– muchos de los que tienen mentalidad de crecimiento, simplemente como consecuencia del entusiasmo que sienten por lo que hacen.

People with the growth mindset hoped for a different kind of partner. They said their ideal mate was someone who would: See their faults and help them to work on them. Challenge them to become a better person

musical but I can't string three notes together.

Compreendo que o sonho de pobre é sonhar, apenas sonhar.

Rose once jotted down a quotation she attributed to her mother: "I don't know which is more heartbreaking, a dream un[ful]filled or a dream realized.