Quotes About Aspiration

In imagining myself as modest, mysterious, and fiercely intelligent, I'm forced to realize that, in real life, I am none of these qualities. Nobody dreams of the things he already has.

We sweat for our pretensions. It

When you're young it's easy to believe that such a opportunity will come again, maybe even a better one.

what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.

but that's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.

but that's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top. I'd

The problem of the twenty-first century is still some agonizingly enduring combination of legacies bleeding forward from slavery and color lines. Freedom in its infinite meanings remains humanity's most universal aspiration. Douglass's life, and especially his words, may forever serve as our watch-warnings in our unending search for the beautiful, needful thing.

A girl named Brittany or Ashley would have fallen in love with the spandex costumes and the white skates of a figure skater, but when your name is Joanna and everyone calls you Jo, you grow up in Cleveland watching your older brother play hockey in the shadows of the steel mills and dream of the day when you can wear a jersey and carry a stick, waiting for your chance to slap that puck home.

What were you to do when you didn't know anyone who could help you, no one who could explain the way to the things you wanted- what could you do- you couldn't just take a spade, a few bricks, and a gerenium and see what happened. You had to be rich, you had to be educated; you had to be powerful to stop contagious ugliness from spreading.

My great ambition has always prevented me from doing anything.

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

We must have our goals, our dreams, and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn.

people move in the hope of a better life

Somos una nación de ingenieros que aspiran a ser reconocidos.

Sometimes good ideas spring from having a sense of where you want to go, of having a vision of the next level of products.

Girls either wanted him or wanted to improve him, but most often a combination of the two. They wanted to improve him until he justified the amount they wanted him.

the feeling I had of moving into somebody else's broken ambition.

She dressed for a future not yet with us but which she expected to arrive.

And perhaps for my mother this dream was the truth, and just by dreaming it she felt she had brought it to pass.

You dream… or you're driven mad.

If you want fame or wealth or wolves, go out and hunt for them.

Men rise on steppin'-stones of their dead selves to higher things!...

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.