Quotes About Aspiration

Dear God, how many foaming seas, how much green earth, how many multicolored birds and sweet desires I'll never have time enough to taste before I die like a poor beggar with outstretched and greedy palms! May you reach that far land I've aimed at since my birth and, if you can, load my large flowering tree with fruit.29 KIMON FRIAR

cu cât st?pânul st? mai sus, cu atât mai mult se lungeÈ™te funia robiei noastre, s?rim atunci È™i zburd?m într-o b?t?tur? mai larg?, murim f?r? s?-i d?m de cap?t È™i asta numim libertate [...]

Do not be reluctant to value yourself highly, for others do so. Nor should you hesitate to aspire to any goal, because God has been lavish in his gifts to you.

It means that students, if they don't come from very wealthy families, they're going to leave college with big debts. And if you have a big debt, you're trapped. I mean, maybe you wanted to become a public interest lawyer, but you're going to have to go into a corporate law firm to pay off those debts. And by the time you're part of the culture, you're not going to get out of it again.

He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.

She wants to learn how to handle a gun. Well, I want George Clooney naked in my bed, but I haven't attempted kidnapping. Yet.

Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow

When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.

Quiero lo que somos cuando estamos juntos. Amo lo que creo que podríamos llegar a ser.

Algumas pessoas querem o simples, o banal e o tranquilo. Isso não faz com que as pessoas que querem o complicado, o extraordinário e o emocionante sejam gananciosas ou egoístas. Querer é querer, qualquer que seja o sonho.

If you don't go after what you want, you will never have it; If you don't ask, the answer is always no; If you don't step forward, you are always in the same place.

I'm wondering, if there was something you wanted, had wanted for some time, what would you do about it?" "If I've wanted it, why don't I have it?" "Because you haven't made any real effort to get it as yet." "And why haven't I?" He arched his sandy brows. "Am I slow or just stupid?" Brenna thought it over, decided he couldn't know he'd just insulted his firstborn.

Heaven and Earth, Ripley, do more than hold us between them. They expect us to deserve it.

Girl, if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

If she'd had enough thread, she could've crocheted the Taj Mahal.

some brains. The second was that I take this opportunity, this gift, and make something of myself. I guess I looked like a balloon that had its air pricked out, because she laughed and laughed, and she gave me a slap on the arm. She told me if I needed to give her something, if I needed to do that to be happy, she'd like a pair of red shoes with heels and open toes. Size nine. Wouldn't she be some sight going to church Sundays in those red shoes?

tailor-made a job I'd like more.

You promised it. And it's my dream as much as yours.

While she would have loved to

Only the foolish waste their wishes.

As long as she considered herself a work in progress, she wouldn't stop trying to learn, to become, to make more of herself.

She did not want the pleasurable and comfortable mediocrity in which she now wallowed to be the sum of her life.

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.

He was going to take in, possess the whole of the world. Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi? Fuck off. He wanted more.