Quotes About Aspiration

And I'm the tool, I muttered. Then I thought about it, sighed, and shook my head. One day, I told myself, one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool.

It's what you do with the want that matters.

One day," I told myself, "one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool." I

Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are.

Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others—even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?" —Marshall Bruce Mathers III, "Lose Yourself"1

Good is the enemy of great... We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life. The vast majority of companies never become great, precisely because the vast majority become quite good-and that is their main problem.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

Dreams are the wind of the mind.

I see arms and hands and tear-stained faces... Reaching up but not quite touching the promised land... I hear pleas and prayers and desperate graces, Saying Oh Lord, please give us a helping hand...

Did mothers always try to press unto their daughters the itineraries of which they themselves had dreamed. Did I?

At nineteen I had wanted to write. At forty I still wanted to write, and nothing that had happened in the years between made me any more certain that I could.

I remember wishing that I could afford the house, which cost $ 1,000 a month. "Someday you will," she said lazily. "Someday it all comes." There in the sun on her terrace it seemed easy to believe in someday, but later I had a low-grade afternoon hangover and ran over a black snake on the way to the supermarket and was flooded with inexplicable fear when I heard the checkout clerk explaining to the man ahead of me why she was finally divorcing her husband.

supported the high ceilings.

Alas, it was never meant for us to hear. It was never meant for us to know. We ought never be taught to read. We fight through the constant male refractoriness of our surroundings; our souls are torn out of us with such shock that there isn't even any blood. Remember: I didn't and don't want to be a 'feminine' version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.

If wishes were horses, beggers would ride

What is it that the slave dreams? The slave dreams of being the master.

I believe in family values and following your dreams.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.