Quotes About Aspiration

What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took? 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.

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

It looked like I was the dead itself, and that isn't something someone should aspire to look like.

But that's what dreams are for—to weave reality and fantasy and memory and stitch together something you can't hope for in waking life. To fulfill that little part of you that wants something so bad.

So Maya will grow up to be an amazing healer who can change into a killer cat. Daniel and Sam will roam the country hunting criminals and demons. Hayley and Nicole will divide their time between recording platinum albums and winning gold medals in swimming. And me? I'll be the cute, funny guy sitting at the bar, hoping for a good brawl to break out." "In other words, exactly where you were already headed," Hayley said. We all laughed at that, even Corey.

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.

I know," the Devil says. He whines. "But I still want it. I want things. That's my job. I even want the things that I already have. I want everything you have. I want the things that don't exist. That's why I'm the Devil.

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

wondered if he really was capable of it. Then he thought what a thrill it would be to create something from nothing; to see, one day in the future, a new church here where now there was nothing but rubble, and to say: I made this.

Human beings have the capacity to rise above mundane circumstances and touch the eternal.

You didn't fail me. You fed me and took care of me ... But there was something more important than all that, he thought. What Tom had given him was nothing so commonplace as food and shelter. Tom had given him something unique, something no other man had to give, something even his own father could not have given him: something that was a passion, a skill, an art, and a way of life. You gave me a cathedral...

If you're going to have a fight, you might as well fight for what you really want.

A pesar de las dificultades y frustraciones de hoy y del mañana, aún tengo un sueño

Si no se puede evitar la lucha, mejor luchar por lo que realmente se desea.

think he could take

estaban locos por los aeroplanos, y soñaban con ser pilotos.

She wanted to do all the things he had done: to raise her children well, to make a difference to her country's politics, to love and be loved. Most of all, when she died, she wanted her children to be able to say, as she said of her father, that her life had meant something, and that the world was a better place for it.

Si estamos llamados al éxito, debemos ir tras él —dijo.

When I die pin me up against the sky.

Boy, if you ain't a case: waiting someday to be a something to a Somebody you don't even know, yet.

It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them.

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him

When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously.

Dreams have the power to make real what the heart desires.