Quotes About Aspiration

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

My goal might be impossible for me. Even so... I think it would be great if it came true. So I keep believing.

Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.

Even if I'm following the path my parents set, I need to take my own dreams and beliefs with me.

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

Be careful, fathers, when you inordinately desire things to be better for your children than they were for you. Do not, however unintentionally, make things worse by removing the requirement for reasonable work as part of their experience, thereby insulating your children from the very things that helped make you what you are.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

fulfill all his promise.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday and dream of who you can be tomorrow...

and thereby sabotage their best selves. Aspiring entrepreneurs like Ashley have said to me, "I can't be tied down to a routine or a flow chart.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.

When you wish upon a star,Makes no diff'rence who you are,Anything your heart desires will come to you.

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire.

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I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.