Quotes About Aspiration

Our dreams cannot exist at the same time. I am so young, and he is so aged, and both of these facts should make us people who are deserving of their dreams, but this is not a possibility.

I do not think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

We could retell our stories and make them better, more representational or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

Everything is possible again." It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.

Un hombre sabe tocar, otro puede hacer de un pueblo una gran ciudad, y el que no puede hacer ni una cosa ni otra merece que le echen del mundo a patadas; evitar este castigo a sido sin duda lo que ha dado lugar al nacimiento del reino de los críticos.

He wanted her to be as well dressed as the richest lady in Ilhéus; fine clothes would erase her past and hide the stove burns of her arms. But the fine clothes rarely left the closet

Y es el sentido común el que, sin lugar a dudas, nos grita desde nuestro yo interno más sabio: ¡Utilizá todo lo que tenés para redoblar tu posibilidad de llegar adonde querés!

Du hast Hunger zu lernen Hunger zu wachsen Hunger zu wissen Hunger zu fliegen... Vielleicht bin ich heute die Brust die jene Milch gibt die deinen Hunger stillt... Es scheint mir wunderbar, daß du nun nach dieser Brust verlangst. Aber vergiß eins nicht: Es ist nicht die Brust, die nährt, es ist die Milch!

Like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned someday to do.

The way in which we see things can hardly be distinguished from the way in which we wish to see them.

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall.

The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.

It's all well and good to set reasonable goals, but when unreasonable goals are your only choice, you should always strive for them. Because it's not really a choice at all.

Dreams are rarely founded on truth.

One did not have to sell like Hemingway, Davenport, Hale, Rawlings, Weston, or Taylor Caldwell to get Perkins's backing. In fact, his heart went out most readily to the person who desperately desired to be a writer but who could not produce a good book.

There's enough of the social climber in most people so that they fall for this stuff and consider it a privilege to be admitted to a place that specializes in taking their money.

If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: "That's where I wanted to go today!

Don't you think that when we envy other people their qualities, their lives, their possessions--we don't mean 'I wish I were you,' but 'I wish I had some of the things you've got in addition to all I've got'?

Content," Guildenstern agreed. "One aspires to happiness, but not too much since one would not wish to be disappointed.

Remember you goal is gold. -Aaron Jhinkoo

Think about the future and don't dwell on the past. -Aaron Jhinkoo

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women. (Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)