Quotes About Aspiration

ONE of the most distinctive features of the human mind is to forecast better things. "We look before and after And pine for what is not.

I finally realized that I was being unrealistic. I could never be like my heroes. They all had something I didn't. A Y-chromosome.

When I was a kid, I did everything I could to get super-powers. Why? I wanted to be a hero. I wanted to be Captain America. Sometimes I fall short.

If you could bottle it, everyone would have one!

Jump high and hard with intention and heart.

quitting. But now, only ten days out, I was done. I wanted

Bring the man you aspire to be, the one who already has the love he longs for. Play every piece of yourself and play it with all you've got until you're not playing anymore. That's what Cary Grant did. The lonely boy who lost his mom in the fog of his father's deceit found himself in the magic of wanting to be. His name was Archibald Leach.

To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

The trees were tall, but I was taller

It's not about becoming a movie star. It's about the down-in-the-dirt art of inhabiting the person you aspire to be while carrying on your shoulders the uncertain and hungry man you know you are.

The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.

You know what resolutions are? They're a setup for defeat.

Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunter's home.

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Chetan Bhagat

complex vortex of tests, classes, selections and preparations is something every insignificant Indian student like me has to go through to have a shot at a decent life. Else, I could always take the job of Birju the watchman or, if I wanted it simpler, hang myself

I observed all the students at IIT. They came from all parts of India, toppers in their respective schools. Few had come there to research science or learn about technology. Most had come to achieve their middle-class dream—a better life. And that is what the IITs promised them.

This is not a story. There is no romance in here, nor are there page-turning, thrilling moments. Rather, this book is about a dream both you and I share—to make India a better place.

God gives talent so that the ordinary person can become extraordinary. Talent is the only way the poor can become rich. Otherwise, in this world the rich would remain rich and the poor would remain poor. This unfair talent actually creates a balance, helps to make the world fair

The stars were mingled with my dreams...

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.

For the world to follow, we must do more than rattle our sabers and demand allegiance to our vision simply because we believe we are right. We must provide a reason for others to aspire to that vision. And that reason must come with more than the repetition of a bumper-sticker phrase about freedom and democracy. It must come with more than the restatement of failed policy. It must come with the wisdom to admit when we are wrong and resolve to change course and get it right.

For happy health, fuel yourself with dreams and greens.

Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers.