Quotes About Aspiration

A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.

Just getting by one more day isn't good enough anymore. There must be more to life, more to hope for.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn't everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it.

And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after.» Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

May you see drops like stars.

Johnson was insulated from reality by his hopes and dreams.

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Believe that you can exceed all your previous ambitions and hopes in all areas of your life.

A man's reach should exceed his grasp

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?

O poder do Homem deve exceder o seu alcance. Senão, para que serviria o céu?

Your reach should exceed your grasp, or what's a heaven for

Glad was I when I reached the other bank. Now for a better country. Vain presage! Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank soil to a plash? Toads in a poisoned tank Or wild cats in a red-hot iron cage-

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Man's reach much exceed his grasp, or what is heaven for?

She strives, understanding the futility of it, for perfection.

And what mostly made that feller a loser was he didn't want nuthin' bad enough.

As he later wrote, if he believed there were things he couldn't do, he would still be working at the meatpacking plant in Sioux City.

Look forward, not back. Always move forward.

Am I the kind of person I want my eternal companion to be?

Reality could be painful to acknowledge, but there came a point when we all realized we weren't going to walk on the moon, star in a Hollywood movie, or be president of the United States. We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment.

I'm married to the future.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone.