Quotes About Aspiration

The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can't fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly.

You envy her. How come she doesn't have the weight of ambition? You pity her. How come she has no ambition?

The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can't fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly. Only a monster would lock a bird in here and call himself an animal lover.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

The most important lesson I've learned is that first you have to dream, and then you have to believe in your dreams. That is the only way for them to come true.

we are God's eyes and ears, his hands and feet, his voice in this world. He didn't just level the playing field between men and women; he raised the bar sky high for both sexes, for he wants his image bearers to aspire, to push ourselves, and to reach toward the high calling he has entrusted to us.

What one remembers is, I think, a clue to what one wants to be.

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

Go and you will see that nothing is as wonderful as our dreams can make it

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

The thing about having it all is, it should include having the ability to have it all. Maybe there are some people who know how to have it all. They're probably off in a group somewhere, laughing at those of us who have it all but don't know how to.

I always thought that they should make an epidural that works from the neck up, which was a condition I aspired to for most of what I laughingly refer to as my adult life.)

Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.

May I never wake up from the American dream.

Too many Negroes go into medicine and dentistry merely for selfish purposes, hoping thereby to increase their income and spend it in joyous living. They have the ambition to own fine automobiles, to dress handsomely, and to figure conspicuously in society. The practice of these professions among poor Negroes yields these results.

It is a common on occurrence to see a Negro well situated as a minister or teacher aspiring to a political appointment which temporarily pays little more than what he is receiving and offers no distinction except that of being earmarked as a Jim Crow job set aside for some Negro who has served well the purposes of the bosses as a wardheeler in a campaign.

If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.

Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Oh, Jerry, don't ask for the moon. We have the stars.

Lawrence Kasdan has this to say about Star Wars: "Force Awakens, New Hope, Empire—these are movies about fulfilling what is inside you. That's a story that everybody can relate to. Even when you get to be my age, you're still trying to figure that out. It's amazing but it's true. What am I, what am I about, have I fulfilled my potential, and, if not, is there still time? That's what the Star Wars saga is about.

Have the courage of your desire.

The only way to get everything you want in life is to be very clever about what you want.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.