Quotes About Aspiration

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

Ayer los dos soñábamos con un mundo perfecto . . . (Yesterday, we were dreaming a perfect world . . .) —"QUÉ HICISTE

Now, if that's everything, I have an empire to build and a girl to chase.

You're a billionaire now. You have an entire team of people to protect you. The world is your motherfaxing oyster. It's okay to want things." Max turned off the shower. "It's okay to go after what you want.

Nothing. You know what that feels like. Reach for it. Grab it. Make it yours.

You could be happy with three. Three is a good number. But in this life, in this world, three is not enough. You can't stop. You won't. If you don't have their attention yet, you will soon.

Why was pushing yourself more important than what she wanted?

I didn't want to be the glass ballerina or the knife. I wanted to prove, at least to myself, that I was something.

The world is your motherfaxing oyster. It's okay to want things.

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

He writes Before I die I want to and draws a line. He writes it again. Then he writes it a dozen more times. "After we fill these up, we can keep going on the front of the building and down the other side. It's a good way to figure out just why we're here.

I think of something my mom used to say, about how as scary as it is to go after dreams, it's even scarier not to.

Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren't born for small! You don't know how to do small! Small is not in you!

Actually, standing next to you makes it feel as high as Everest.

Finch,April 3. "Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!" I sign my name and write: "Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way!

Hope you're keeping the dust out of your eyes and your feet off the ground.

Your mountain is waiting. So Ã¢â'¬Â¦ get on your way!

When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

Il y avait des hommes si ambitieux qu'ils auraient torché les chefs, pour les entendre seulement dire merci.

Le había quedado, de los tiempos en los que soñaba con dedicarse a la literatura y se juntaba con poetas, una desesperación universal.

You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into...it is as much as you can expect from a poor man's daughter.

What you touch at present you may have; but my soul will be on that hill-top before you lay hands on me again.

He didn't pray for Catherine's soul to haunt him. Time bought resignation, and a melancholy sweeter than common joy. He recalled her memory with ardent, tender love, and hopeful aspiring to the better world; where he doubted not she was gone.