Quotes About Aspiration

La santa criatura ignoraba que donde empieza la ambición cesan los sentimientos ingenuos.

La cuestión del vestido es, por otra parte, de gran importancia para quienes quieren aparentar que tienen lo que no tienen, porque es a menudo el mejor medio de poseerlo más adelante.

ci sono uomini-quercia, io sono forse solo un arbusto elegante, e ho la pretesa di essere un cedro.

What hopes must it raise in a young creature who, in the midst of sordid elements, had pined for a life of elegance! A sunbeam had fallen into the prison. Augustine was suddenly in love.

He will show you how, during the springtime of life, illusions, innocent hopes, silver threads of gossamer, descend from heaven and return there without ever touching the earth.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can give impudence to his betters!

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

The great aim of human life

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

I hold visions to be wisdom, and would deny them only to ambition, which exists only by the destruction of visions of everybody else

I want the moon, up there. But... he will always be unreachable.

I want adventure in the great wide somewhere. I want it more than I can tell. And for once it might be grand To have someone understand I want so much more than they've got planned…

I hear echoes in your prose, echoes that run back to stuffy English drawing rooms and American universities. Is that what Canadians aspire to sound like?" She had taken a cigarette without appearing to watch what she was doing, and lighted it from a box of kitchen matches. I needed a cigarette myself, but was too wrapped up in what was being said to me to attempt to smoke. Gertrude blew a large smoke ring across the gap between us and watched it drift towards the ceiling.

Jadi, jika aku ditanyai, "Apa yang harus kulakukan untuk menjadi penulis sukses?" Aku akan menjawab bahwa kau harus menginginkannya lebih daripada kau menginginkan yang lain.

Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.

How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read . A library is a resource. Something you go to, for reference, as and when. But also something you simply look at, because it gives you succour, answers to some idea of who you are or, more to the point, who you would like to be, who you will be once you own every book you need to own.

Let me tell you, an I had the shaping of things in this world, ye should all three have been clothed in the finest silks, and ride upon milk-white horses, with pages at your side, and feed upon nothing but whipped cream and strawberries; for such a life would surely befit your looks." At

Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you've done that, dream bigger!

Your station in life does not define you. The promise of America is for all of us.

As I lay in bed before leaving for practice, I looked over on my wall and saw the collage of hockey players I did when I was 6 years old for art class. Next to that was a Pittsburgh Penguins pennant and below that was a poster of Wayne Gretzky. It was this really cool photo of him on a pond standing by a net with his Edmonton Oilers jersey on.

When I was growing up, playing hockey was what I thought about when I woke up and when I closed my eyes to go sleep. I was still thinking about hockey, hoping I would have a dream that involved the game.

And then you go to college and some teacher says to you, "Hey, why don't you go to Alvin Ailey and go dance." Madonna: No, he said, "You're too good for this. You don't need this. This is an environment for people who don't know what they want to do with their lives. Go. Go to New York.

I need more than the streets. I don't want to be a floating crap game all my life. I want to be something . . . anything.

Harry looked into her eyes, then at her face and gently glided the tip of a finger over her cheek and traced the outline of her nose, his face and eyes in a soft and tender smile, You could really make my life worth while. A guy needs something to give his life a reason or whats the point of living? I need more than the streets. I don't want to be a floating crap game all my life. I want to be something … anything.