Quotes About Aspiration

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

That spring when I was sixteen, more than anything else in the world I wanted to be a success when I grew up. I did not know that there was any other way of being loved.

From "boyhood up," as Lincoln once confided to his old friend Ward Hill Lamon, "my ambition was to be President.

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

She'd learned now that the only way to write a list was to finish with something you actually wanted to do.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

Are you enviable? How can you make yourself enviable?

What wonderful things dreams are! They can make you be anything you want and take you anyplace in the world.

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

I have those dreams that you can't put into words.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

the prayer of dominant desire always tends to attain its object.

a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?).

Be fearless in the chase of your dream.

The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.

I don't know how many good books I still have in me I hope there are another four or five.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.