Quotes About Aspiration

Follow your dreams, they say. But what no one ever tells you is what you have to give up in the process. The sacrifices. The thousand ways your life can go to hell while you keep your eyes on the horizon, waiting for that sun to rise. From 'Or She Dies'.

because you've chosen poetry, you're condemned to wonder at skills and felicities of language or imagination in the poems of others that you yourself may never achieve, no matter how hard you work toward them—things that will always be beyond your reach but also will always be luring you on.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

may you live as long as you want to and want to as long as you live.

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit–retire!

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does

My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.

Now that I had become a man (with a leaky fountain pen to prove it), I was ready to take on the world.

Dreams seem to generate a special kind of passion and willpower, both of which help people navigate the seas of life.

The masses are not happy enough to want more out of life and not unhappy enough to reject their way of living or want a better life.

Samo roman na najbolji na?in može da pokaže koliko je stvarnost slaba i nedovoljna da zadovolji ?ovekove apetite, ostvari njegove želje i snove. ~ Mario Vargas Ljosa ~

In life there are three elements: mission, vision and values,' adds the prestigious Argentinian sports psychologist Liliana Grabín.

anxiety to become good enough for Johan Cruyff to notice us cannot be put into words. Without that desire, none of us would be who we are today.

Zapatos que les apretaban y les sacaban ampollas y que tu padre impedía que dejaran de calzar porque sin zapatos ningún indio podía llegar a ser alguien. Los ingenieros, los abogados, los maestros no calzaban huaraches.

Para alcanzar tus metas jugaste la carta de los símbolos, y nada más simbólico que la indumentaria.

But the dream eludes wakeful pursuit; it always does.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Man lives in his dreams, that is where he gets his only reward and receives his only pleasure.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

It's like a taco aspired to become a sope mixed with a quesadilla but got scared by the grease bath and quit halfway.

Espero la cosecha de mi sueño sirva como inspiracion a todos!" he enthused via Twitter. "I hope the harvest of my dream serves as inspiration to all!

Jelena had begun thinking about such things, how much having a chance to do what you were good at mattered.

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

We are the total of our longings [...]