Quotes About Aspiration

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. —Daniel H. Burnham

Meanwhile:outside the Burrow, new shoots of trees, new wood, reach out of the ground, toward air, toward sun, toward something they can't actually see, something they have no way to be sure is even there.

So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of dreams. And then tomorrows.

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.

money is the lance, not the grail

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

The 10's(2010) are a baby kangaroo, a bill overdue, a coal chute for staggering millions, a bowl of camphor punch, the fast-dissolving afterimages of a long night's exhausting dreams. Boys and girls, take off those space suits; the boot is lifted from your chest and you can safely resume the search for perfection.

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

Life is a quest to find out how much better you can be and higher you can go.

Wilma was amazed that she, a sixteen-year-old high school girl, had a chance to be a part of the Olympics

We, and Plato, meant nothing but the best for them! And when I say the best I mean it literally; what we wanted for them was nothing but excellence, virtue, arete. They say you can't want that for somebody else, they have to want it for themselves. Well, perhaps they have a point. But Plato wrote that seeking to increase someone else's excellence is the best form of love.

And what he had offered me was exactly everything I most wanted —to make art, to build the future, to help each other become our best selves. "He honors me.

I also pursue excellence, and Father told me that it can only ever be pursued, never caught—though

Maybe some of the masters really believed they could make it work, but I think what they really wanted wasn't to do it themselves but for somebody else to have made it real and for them to have been born there.

Give me the good for which I do not know to ask,

Melhor um pássaro voando do que dois na mão!... Eis a versão do provérbio, para uso dos fortes, dos capazes de ideal... - É a versão dos otários, também.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

Continually setting goals and striving to achieve them is what makes life worthwhile!

Hope-to cherish a desire with expectation of fulfillment.