Quotes About Aspiration

Conservative critics of Obama seized on his aspiration for 'empathy,' declaring it an invitation to judicial activism - as if empathy could not coexist with impartiality - and later made it a subtext of their confirmation complaints.

As [Sonia] Sotomayor wrote in her autobiography, once she set herself on the path of a legal career, 'I saw no reason to stint on ambition.

I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

Once we demanded two chickens in every pot, then two cars in every garage. Now families want two homes—one a retreat for weekends and vacations—and maybe a boat or an airplane. So it follows that they need two pay checks.

have been aiming for her dad

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.

What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humpfrey Bogart?

How am I to put this together with my human life, my intellectual life, my solitude, my transcendence, my brains, and my fearful, fearful ambition?

Someday I'd be classy if it killed me—probably not today, though.

Lewis said sadly to me, 'When I at last realized that I was not, after all, going to be a great man...' I think he meant 'a great poet.

If you imagine where you want to go, you stand a much better chance of getting there.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

The dreamer whispered, Just once let something happen.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it could be.

White-supremacist-patriarchal-heteronormative-capitalism socializes us to aspire to "good Negro" status. It convince little Black girls from East Oakland to graduate from Howard—summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, to pledge the oldest Black sorority, to earn PhDs, to be in the "right" rooms…" - Melina Abdullah

Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.

The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do...

A man who's not content with what he's got, well, more than likely he won't be content with what he hasn't.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

We let our dreams take over. We stopped saying someday and started saying next year, next month, next week.

She was her father's rocket.