Quotes About Aspiration

Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she herself might do. September expected that destinies, which is how she thought of professions, simply landed upon one like a crown, and ever after no one questioned or fretted over it, being sure of one's own use in the world. It was only that somehow her crown had not yet appeared. She did hope it would hurry up.

She did not want Fairyland to be full of older girls who wanted to be stars.

You know how questing goes. You can't explain it to anyone else; it would be like telling them your dreams.

Opium ain't got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow

She got, instead, a towering confection that might have thought about becoming a sandwich at one point, but had gotten greater ambitions along the way.

Dreams keep the heart alive.

I've no idea what I shall do when I am grown! I don't suppose there is much call for Knights or Bishops or Heroines in Omaha or even Chicago. And I'm sure other girls are much better at it than I.

For all that they love to make kings, John's folk seem to have little interest in the actual business of ruling anything. They like to become, they do not like to be.

There are things I want in life - things I need, things I mean to do,' Olivia went on. 'I just don't know what they are.

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage? I read on, and I find myself smiling at that sound-fleshed young girl, her daring and her folly and her many fears.

It wasn't bad, but it could not be great.

If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, thereÂ's nothing you canÂ't accomplish.

The moment a child answers the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' he is halfway to being an adult.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth are you going to live it? What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true? what is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?

Art is the highest form of hope.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich.

You have to know what you want to get it.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

But you were born to gentle dreams,