Quotes About Aspiration

When Dad was a kid, he wanted to be a lumberjack, but unfortunately he'd been cursed with the build of an accountant and the brain of an astrophysicist. These qualities had combined to make him the third-most-visited orthodontist in northern New Jersey.

when the ambitious man whose slogan is 'Either Caesar or nothing' does not get to be Caesar, he despairs over it. But this also means something else: precisely because he did not get to be Caesar, he now cannot bear to be himself.

Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources.

The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren't the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.

It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.

The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren't the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.

We are making a better way to live. This was the myth, they had all grown up with it.

What use was utopia without joy, after all? What was the point of all their striving if it did not include the laughter of the young?

So no, Serena couldn't and wouldn't settle for just any man, and if she could help it, she would, with no exceptions, marry the man of her dreams. A man who was well-educated and one who could financially bring to the table as much as she did. In particular, a man like Tim, who was chief financial officer for a large insurance company. And if God answered all Serena's prayers, her future husband would ultimately be able to provide

Somewhere along the line I began compiling myself from the excerpts of better men.

Wenn er groß war, wollte er Streichholzmacher werden. Das war so schön gefährlich, an seinen Fingern könnte Schwefel hängenbleiben, so daß niemand ihm die Hand zu geben wagte. Er würde bei seinen Kameraden großen Respekt genießen wegen seines unheimlichen Handwerks.

Follow your dreams. They know the way.

It was all I could think about. Even as I slept, I dreamt of creating beautiful things.

And maybe, just maybe, you will exceed your wildest dreams.

Da giovane è facile credere che ciò che desideri sia ciò che ti meriti, è facile convincersi che se davvero vuoi qualcosa, è tuo sacrosanto diritto ottenerla.

With all my dreams having come true, what will I dream of now ?

If you want to reach something badly enough, you will.

As he was drifting off, he said, "With all my dreams having come true, what will I dream of now?" Oh, damn. Lanthe gazed at his face in sleep. I just fell in love with him.

Everybody says we got no hope of goan anywhere. You ever think we deserve better than the Basin?" Without hesitation, she says, "Non." I ponder it over another sip. "Ouais, me neither." My eyes blurred with tears. Yet Jack had made plans to get out of the Basin and fight for a better life. He'd intended to fly in the face of everything he'd grown up believing. That struck me as unimaginably brave.

You are what you believe you are.We make images in our minds of what will be based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of. Dr. Woodhouse to Caulder and Ginny

The West had become lost—struggling to remember what it was and losing sight of what it aspired to be.

You can always have the best, Kasie," I say quietly. "A woman like you never has to settle for anything.

If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.

The throne belongs to whoever is able to take it.