Quotes About Aspiration

Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow you will find them

much more exotic life than I do. Where do you come up with

I still have this crazy idea

the future, Hugues

objects that couldn't be

For every elite benefiting from extraction there is a non-elite who would love to replace him.

I've lived and seen enough to know how difficult it is to settle for a small life when you're destined for greatness.

Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always — will always be — there.

We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling.

pants. Juni looks at me and grins shakily. "I wanted to be a vet

He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.

But I'm a believer in the perfectibility of human beings. I think we can be better. I think we can be perfect or near to it. And when we become our best selves, the possibilities are endless. We can solve any problem. We can cure any disease, end hunger, everything, because we won't be dragged down by all our weaknesses, our petty secrets, our hoarding of information and knowledge. We will finally realize our potential.

The truth is that I do not like hanging in there. I was born, I believe, to do more. Or perhaps it's that I survived to do more. Dorsetta is married, a mother of three, and manages a restaurant; she does more than hang in there. I have a low opinion of this expression, Hang in there.

Who says we don't want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with us wanting to be inspired? Everyone acts like it's some crazy idea, some outrageous ungrantable request. Don't we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning?

I will reach upward. I will attempt to do better. I will not be a burden upon those who have helped me too much already. I will always be grateful for what pleasures I have enjoyed, what joys I have yet to experience. I will take opportunities as they come, but at the same time, I will not trust so easily. I will look at who is at the door before opening it. I will try to be fierce. I will argue when necessary. I will be willing to fight.

It is very much, she thinks, like looking at the moon and knowing one could make it there, too. It is only time and breath that stand between her and the top. She is young. She'll do it and have done it.

What would it be like, she thought, to be someone like that, eloquent and inspirational, so at ease in front of thousands?

It's not a lie," he added. "It's a form of practice. Figure out who you want to be, then dress like that person. No detail is too small to overlook. If you're at any critical point of your life, you should do everything you can to tip the scales—not in your favor, but in favor of having the right thing happen.

Have you envisioned wild success about anything lately?

So, what are you really trying to do here, anyway?" (vision, purpose).

If you limit your choices to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. —ROBERT FRITZ

I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific. —Lily Tomlin

Purpose defines success.

If you can imagine doing something, then you can do it.