Quotes About Aspiration

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one. I imagined that I felt the calling and prayed that it be so.

It seemed like all of creation was mapped out above and I was drawn from the laughter of the other children into a stillness I aspired to master. Here one could hear a seed form or the soul fold like a handkerchief.

that without a doubt we sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have.

Talent helps, but it won't take you as far as ambition.

You need to aim beyond what you are capable of.

It's not how good you are, It's how good you want to be.

Nearly all rich an powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.

Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. Without having a goal it's difficult to score.

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out

He is twenty-eight years old, and to the best of his knowledge he has no ambitions. No burning ambitions, in any case, no clear idea of what building a plausible future might entail for him.

That was all he had ever aspired to, with a wife thrown into the bargain, maybe, and a kid or two to go along with her. It had never felt like too much to ask for, but after three years of struggling to write his dissertation, Tom finally understood that he didn't have it in him to finish. Or, if he did have it in him, he couldn't persuade himself to believe in the value of doing it anymore.

That was the real difference, Ferguson concluded. Not too little money or too much money, not what a person did or failed to do, not buying a larger house or a more expensive car, but ambition. That explained why Brownstein and Solomon managed to float through their lives in relative peace—because they weren't tormented by the curse of ambition.

Half the people I know want to be writers. Why do you say want? If you're already doing it, then it's not about the future. It already exists in the present.

As long as you're dreaming, there's always a way out.

We find ourselves only by looking to what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

A dream, a wild dream of removing ourselves from the cares and sorrows of this miserable world and creating a world of our own. A long shot, yes, but who's to say it can't happen?

Blue sky beyond barbed wire I wish I were sky.

Like the good Reverend King I too 'have a dream' but when I wake up I forget it and remember I'm running late for work.

John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.

To believe in and reach for the beyond was Lizzie's thing, and it suited her and was beautiful for her, an opinion of Autumn's which she didn't think Lizzie had ever quite believed she held. To ask the beyond some serious questions was Autumn's thing.

Vision over visibility