Quotes About Aspiration

you become like the treasure that you seek.

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.

What is the big vision that you're working toward? What is the big dream you are investing in? What is your definition of the "good life"? When will you know that you have been successful? If you had it all, what would "all" look like?

What will you hook your heart to today in the hope that it will give you life?

what is the big thing that you are living for right now?

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound

Life is all about what we look to to fill us.

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn't write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback.

if you can imagine someone surpassing you, you should do it yourself.

Lidské srdce je malé, touží ale po velkých v?cech. Nesta?í ani zasytit psa, ale celý sv?t pro n?j není dost velký.

O coração do homem é minúsculo, mas aspira a coisas imensas. Não é suficientemente grande para o jantar de um cão, mas o mundo inteiro não é suficientemente grande para ele.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile goals.

Is that a dream or a goal?

If I were a bass, I'd want to be a tarpon," I

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

An unrecorded goal is only a wish.

There are a few scattered moments in one's life when everything seems possible.

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

I wasn't crazy—I didn't see us in the same league as Zeppelin.

I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. As I watched them singing, it hit me: This is my ticket out. Here was the vehicle I could use to rise out of misery, to become famous, to be looked up to, to be liked, to be admired, to be envied.

As Napoleon later put it, when describing his feelings at this time: "I saw the way to achieve all my dreams. . . . I would found a religion, I saw myself marching on the way to Asia, mounted on an elephant, a turban on my head, and in my hand a new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs. In my enterprises I would have combined the experiences of the two worlds, exploiting the realm of all history for my own profit."7

Over the Rainbow» de Judy Garland