Quotes About Aspiration

Toby Keith writes songs like 1993's Should've Been a Cowboy, and what's compelling is that you can't deconstruct its message. Should've Been a Cowboy is not like Bon Jovi's Wanted Dead or Alive, where Jon Bon Jovi claimed to live like a cowboy; Toby Keith wants to be a cowboy for real.

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.

Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams.

Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

Her goals had been the goals of radical women a century ago: to become a lawyer . . . to compete toe-to-toe with men. But like any second-hand goal, it felt like a burden. It had already been fulfilled ten million times over by other women. Penny wanted a dream of her own, but she had no idea how that dream would look.

No­body wants to wor­ship you if you have the same prob­lems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hang­nails, as a reg­ular per­son. You have to be ev­ery­thing reg­ular peo­ple aren't. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what peo­ple are too afraid to be. Be­come whom they ad­mire.

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

May I never be complete May I never be content May I never be perfect

She's seen it, pictured it, dreamed of it. She's wanted it so bad.

this isn't so much romance as it is opportunity [victor mancini]

The doorman leaned into my shoulder and said, A lot of young people don't know what they really want.

If you're dedicated to becoming an author, nothing I can say here will stop you. But if you're not, nothing I can say will make you one.

Annemin hoparlördeki boÄŸuk ve h???rt?l? sesi; 'Doktor olmaya nas?l karar verdin?' diye soruyor. Paige omuz silkiyor; 'Ä°nsan?n gençliÄŸini bir ÅŸeyle takas etmesi gerekiyor...

May I never be complete. May I never be perfect. May I never be content.

Ya que no puedo ser hermosa, quiero ser invisible.

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver

Let me never be complete. May I never be content.

It's nothing perfect or complete, but this is what I've made of my life. Right or wrong, it follows no great master plan. All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I've always hoped for something better than that.