Quotes About Aspiration

Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.

I want my life to mean something!

Look up more than you look around.

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

You can continue doing what you're doing for a long time. But you'll never become the person you want to be.

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

But I want a lot of things—freedom, unlimited downloads, new episodes of Drama Sun Islands—most of which I wasn't going to get.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled" Barack Obama, US President

Martin L. Shoemaker

We desire whatever it is—the place, the person, the thing, the period in our lives—we're convinced we're lacking. The

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

Although we cannot all be writers, we all want to be critics.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the "oughtness" that forever confronts him.

In common with the rest of the world she was eager to grasp at any straw which might rehabilitate her dreams.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

It's easier to get your high school diploma, become a police inspector, or get your master's degree in literature than to commit suicide. The success rate is less than eight percent.

She was not a person who had any right to decency or kindness, she was not a person to aspire to be. She was cruel, and she was evil in many ways. She took what she wanted from anyone, she was nasty, vindictive and she never threw me a kind word.

I am not saying that those who have not yet come to be are nothing.18 They are [28] within one who may wish that they come into being if at some future point he so wishes.

stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible.

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

The miraculous is the least one must aim at.

A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.