Quotes About Aspiration

Well, why not shoot for it? she thought. That moon's there as much for me as for anybody.

I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first.

Mama--Mama--I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy...

Sometimes having the dream makes you more content than having the reality.

Dreams were the stepping stones to glory. By pursuing them, he had attained a level of success that exceeded most men's reach and acquired all that he had set out to gain: Land, cattle, and wealth beyond his highest expectations. Yet, desperation gnawed at him like a starving dog that had just discovered a buried bone, and as he gazed at the stars that blanketed the velvety sky, he felt as though he had achieved nothing.

I've always believed that dreams were meant to be shared. Where's the joy in reaching for something if you have no one to see you capture it?

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Chances are good that you once had a dream—a big, noble, beautiful dream—that you could envision coming true, but that dream was snatched away. An experience like that leaves you longing for a comeback.

God is a dream-giving God. He's given you and me dreams.

Why settle for the ordinary when the extraordinary is only a little dreaming and doing away?

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

You [Virgil] were the lamp that led me from that night. You led me forth to drink Parnassian waters;

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

The future is still unspoiled.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

I've read a lot of first-rate writing, and I have some critical sense; so I know where I stand. I'll never be first rate. I'll improve with practice, I trust, but I haven't got what it takes to reach the top.

Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?' 'You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.' 'Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town.

Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.

To remain conscious and continent was her new goal.

He wanted them to soar. To find, if not heaven, then at least happiness. Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth," said Gamache. "You quoted the poem 'High Flight' when we first talked." "Charles's favorite. He was a naval aviator in the war. And danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Beautiful.