Quotes About Aspiration

Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes—into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

Remember it . Remember that I must want it badly. Remember that this is the only thing left to want, in this world wide and deep.

Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will never know, and who, in turn, will suffer and hope and toil for others who will not be happy either, for man always seeks a happiness far beyond that which is meted out to him. But man's greatness consists in the very fact of wanting to be better than he is.

When women saw her photo and heard her life story, they clamored to take her course and sit for her treatments. The twin promises of enhanced beauty and financial gain—not to mention Madam Walker's own phenomenal personal example—served as a magnet to women who had always believed they would never be more than maids and laundresses.

He aspired to a higher post, once it became vacant, and feared that time was running out. If he got what he wanted, you can be sure that his age would no longer matter to him. He would want nothing more, and he would die happy, as everyone assures us they will the moment they attain something they have wanted badly.

Trouble was, they didn't have much faith to begin with. Their dreams had gone from the beaches of Arilland to the palace ballroom and no further. Faith was a thing sewn into the patchwork skirts of a girl on another shore.

And she would do great things.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve

Yet he was as directionless as ever. The gap between her success and his stillborn career had grown painful. And they needed him to make some decent money.

A girl always pretends to be a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like one.

Every girl pretends she's a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that. And I like the idea of 'happily ever after.

If I grow up, I'd like to be a bus driver," he told me. If, not when.

I want to get enough [money] to take off the hardships of life and leave me free to follow the ideas that interest me the most.

She wanted only to be feared. I wanted to be feared and loved. I didn't want everything she had as she stood onstage that night. I wanted more.

There was a question I wanted answered more than I wanted anything else, and it could take my life to answer it. This question was What could I be? This was what I wanted to know.

None of the young women who wanted her position knew what her position was.

But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.

It's not enough to be Hungarian, you must have talent too.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.

What if the foot, ordained the dust to tread, Or hand, to toil, aspired to be the head? What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind?

Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night