Quotes About Aspiration

I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn't matter where you came from but where you are going.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

If you are asking if my family will take what they want, of course they will. The strong rule, Chen Yi. Those who are not strong dream of it.

If he had learned anything from his father's fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if someone else was hurt, or killed. If you won, you would be forgiven anything. You could be taken from a stinking ger and forced through the ranks until a thousand men followed your orders as if they came from the khan himself. Blood and talent. The nation was built on both.

Three hundred miles is just one step on a journey that I have on my mind

Um homem forte pode dobrar o céu a seu favor, mas só para si mesmo, sabia Temujin.

We must be grateful that the Senate appreciates gold. The senators think only about new horses and slaves, but they were never poor as much as I've been poor. I appreciate gold only because of what it brings to me and this is where it's placed me - on this stairs, with the largest city in the world behind me.

Lo que es estupido es esforzarse por lograr algo que nunca será nuestro.

And, growing tired, we turn aside at last, remember our secret selves, seek out our towers, lay weary hands on the banisters, and climb; climbing, each, to his little four-square dream of love or lust or beauty or death or crime.

Periodista: -¿Por qué vá a subir al Everest? Mallory: -Porque está ahí.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.

You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

The trouble with success is that it's never enough. You always want more.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

The winged beasts and angels know, that mortals cannot fly. But how I flew to see the sun; a broken bird am I.

Peace is not found in the sea. It is found when I dream of eternity.

If only I had feathered wings, that could bend and curve and reach, beyond imagined dreams, unhindered by the weight of earth.