Quotes About Aspiration

It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.

Scooping up the dress, I slip it over my head, and as it cascades to the floor. I suck my stomach for all I'm worth. Forget staying in with a good book. This Cinderella is going to the ball.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Our

Move your feet in the direction that is most favorable for your living up to your full potential.

''God, why give Wings for the angels, but feet for people? . ''You were born to dream, you were born to love''. ''Give me wine. Give me bread, Lift me higher! Lift me higher! From this sphere of earthly dross, redeem me from the clay!

Men from the mountaintops will always come down to the molehill to conquer it. That will always be the vice of the conquerors.

Qué mundos tengo dentro del alma que ha tiempo vengo pidiendo medios para volar?

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.

Poetry is the subject at present of much prose criticism, prose exposition, and prose controversy; but the controversialists are largely the poets themselves, or those who aspire to the title. The subject is treated by them with much earnestness, indeed with some little heat; and it is easy to perceive that the main object of most of the disputants is to establish the superiority of the poet whom the critic himself most admires, and possibly whom he himself most resembles.

I think the proposition still holds good that men of letters who aspire to high distinction do well not to disdain altogether the politics of their time.

Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls,With vassals and serfs at my side.

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them

Pourquoi promenez-vous ces spectres de lumière Devant le rideau noir de nos nuits sans sommeil, Puisqu'il faut qu'ici-bas tout songe ait son réveil, Et puisque le désir se sent cloué sur terre, Comme un aigle blessé qui meurt dans la poussière, L'aile ouverte, et les yeux fixés sur le soleil ?

Tu mourus plein d'espoir dans ta route infinie, Et te souciant peu de laisser ici-bas Des larmes et du sang aux traces de tes pas. Plus vaste que le ciel et plus grand que la vie, Tu perdis ta beauté, ta gloire et ton génie Pour un être impossible, et qui n'existait pas.

Sabeis como é, s'o pai é uma plantinha, quer logo qu'o filho seja árvore. S'o pai é uma pedra, o filho tem que ser uma montanha.

As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me.

I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.

When I entered the industry, I wanted to work with good directors like Mani Ratnam and Gautam Menon; that's why I did Tamil films. I realised later that I was not adding anything to the Tamil scripts and that it was a waste of time for me.

I'm not here to joke around or waste time. I want to put my city and country on the map, and I won't stop until I'm at the top.

Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.

I was terribly ambitious: I was always thinking why wasn't I in the West End. I really wasted my whole youth.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me.

In high school, I was in the band and I was a percussionist, but I always used to watch the girls dance. I used to want to be on the team so bad.