Quotes About Aspiration

Ilya, what do you want?" His smile vanished. When he contemplated his vision, his gaze narrowed until Tess could almost imagine it as a single beam, piercing to the heart of the universe, capable of vaporizing any object that stood in its path. "The world.

Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures.

Don't tell me no one ever gave you a chance. You don't need anything given to you. You can make your own chances. But first you have to know what you're after, my dear.

I think, she began quietly, I think we want... not just bread for our bellies. We want more than only bread. We want food for our hearts, our souls. We want- how to say it? We want, you know- Puccini music.... we want for our beautiful children some beauty. She leaned over and kissed the curl on her finger. We want roses....

A woman can never be too rich or too thin or too young, truly.

Frequent Wishing on the Gracious Moon

Set your wings upon the sea wind Set your eyes upon the stream Feel the billow of the updraft And believe in your dream Know the mercy of these waters Know the safety of the sky Hear the voices in the distance And believe - they will not lie.

No one is too small for anything. You just have to think big!

I have jumped for a tree, jumped for a raven, jumped for a cougar. I shall jump for the sun!

I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly.

No slouch" was okay, but "any ocean" was definitely preferable - metaphorically speaking.

Gylf, you can practice forever and still never fly if you do not really believe you can.

f you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

Maps are dreams: both describe desire, where you want to go, but never the reality of the destination.

Even if I do attain some goal, at that very moment the only thing that's important to me is to go beyond that which is no longer a goal but now only a stage.

They want to live , Alex. They want the life they were cheated out of. So if they see an open door . . . or an open mind . . . some of them come in never intending to leave.

Every man wishes to be king. Her hair snapped about her, buzzing.

Far more important, they took me and my interests very seriously. They never tried to discourage me from becoming a doctor, even though it was an era that breathed, If woman, be a nurse.

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

For their kind do not know what it is to risk everything in the endeavor to rise above the mediocre.

For indeed, a man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if in the end he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions.

But however hard I tried, I believe now there would have remained something beyond my reach.

For we were, as I say, an idealistic generation for whom the question was not simply one of how well one practised one's skills, but to what end one did so; each of us harboured the desire to make our own small contribution to the creation of a better world

Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that is in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.