Quotes About Aspiration

I wished I could be a statue. I wanted to be the statue of Joan of Arc without actually having to have been Joan of Arc… And I thought, I must really hate my life if I can get jealous of a statue.

Whatever you do or dream you can do—begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

Never take what's offered, always ask for more.

Mirrors only show us what we are. Books show us what we can be.

Ambition and poverty are powerful motivators...

But power is a treacherous thing; it's bite is sweet, its kiss can sting and unless I'm much mistaken, it's never given, always taken.

Most people hear an airplane in the sky and think, 'There's an airplane,' and go back to what they were doing. A few folks look around for the airplane, try to figure out what kind of plane it is, and watch it from the time they spot it to the time it disappears on the horizon, maybe after that. Those kids are the ones who will be pilots." He pointed at me. "I knew that about you. I've just been waiting for you to show up.

I remembered what Mr. Hall had told me when I first asked him for a lesson: the kids who watch planes are destined to be pilots.

It's never wrong to pursue something you love.

She looks like someone I want to know, or maybe even be.

That's how New York looked: like a gorgeous, easy thing to have, even for me.

And it struck him that this was New York: a place that glittered from a distance even when you reached it.

wishes she were daring, risqué, all the things she has never been and will never be.

there are so many things that can take a person somewhere else, but none of those things ever happened to me

I wanted to send a young Charlotte into the world to live a different life from mine.

But Stephanie hailed from suburban, midwestern nowhere, and there had been a club whose snack bar served thin, greasy burgers rather than salade niçoise with fresh seared tuna, like this one, but where tennis had been played on sun-cracked courts, and where Stephanie had achieved a certain greatness at around age thirteen. She hadn't played since.

Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

Probably no people embrace change more enthusiastically, at least in theory, than Americans. Who we are at birth is less important to us than who we will become. We are expected—indeed, obligated—not just to be, but to become.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.