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Quotes About Aspiration

When you have found your own success as a woman," explained Edna, "you may do such a fun thing as marry a handsome man who is very much your junior. Consider it a reward for all your hard work.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
You can certainly live without the debt, because debt will always be the abattoir of creative dreams.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He was like a star in the night sky above and she but a sparrow. No matter how high she might try to fly, she'd never reach him.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
aspiring journalist to Carl Kolchak) 'Andy knows I want to be a reporter. Like you' This took me by surprise. 'Sallie, my dear, nobody wants to be a reporter like me.
~ Elizabeth Massie
but it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
We build the most outrageous castles in the air. Nothing is certain, and everything is possible.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without something buoying them up.
~ Elizabeth Wein
For all of my life I have needed more.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Death closes all: but something ere the end,Some work of noble note, may yet be done,Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
And ah for a man to arise in me,That the man I am may cease to be!
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
~ Alfred Victor Vigny
Got a light? See? Careful. I'm everything you ever dreamed.
~ Ali Smith
ambitious people awe some and terrify others!
~ Ali Vali
Hundreds in the East and in the West are pressing onwards towards this goal. and in the unity of the one ideal, in their common aspiration and endeavour, they will meet before the one Portal. They will then recognise themselves as brothers, severed by tongue and apparent diversity of belief, hut fundamentally holding to the same one truth and serving the same God.
~ Alice A. Bailey
Taylor sighed. Going head-to-head with Sharpay on a school assignment was really beneath her. But the more Taylor considered it, the more she liked the idea of seeing her own poem in the paper. After all, the words "published poet" would look awfully good on those Ivy League college applications. "You know what?" Taylor said. "What?" Sharpay snapped. Hands on hips, Taylor stepped forward till the girls were nose-to-nose. "Bring it on.
~ Alice Alfonsi
Sound like a promise that can never happen.
~ Alice Childress
The Bouviers and the Lees alike operated within the great American tradition of immigrant ambition, which held that in making yourself anew, you had the right to embellish the past.
~ Alice Kaplan
I confess I meant to grow wings and lose my mind. I confess that I've forgotten what for.
~ Alice Notley
they seem to cry out that they want to be gods not humans.
~ Alice Notley
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
~ Alice Walker
Keep dreaming in color And drawing your dreams On cement floors Until they are realized. —Alicia Keys
~ Alicia Keys
Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me
~ Alicia Keys
Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.
~ Alicia Keys