Quotes About Aspiration

Her father had called Julia his rocket ever since she was a little girl—I can't wait to watch you fly, he'd say—and she was the one who fixed problems.

When she was in high school she had believed that white people wanted their children to be president of the United States; that most of them worked hard with that goal in mind. And if not president--well, perhaps a cabinet member.

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

And then she took her wishes with her into her sleep.

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.

When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.

he is a man who wants the power and fame that he feels he has been unjustly denied.

You can plant a dream.

You are a person in love with the impossible

If I am a fool, he said, Then let me be a great fool and not a small one.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

Too low they build who build beneath the stars. MRS. CHARLES E. COWMAN , Streams in the Desert

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

Only dreamers can teach us to soar.

The pursuit of power is overwhelmingly and universally a male trait. To rise in the hierarchy, men are much more prepare than women to make sacrifices of their own time, pleasure, relocations health, safety, or emotions.

Personally I'd give ten thousand bucks to be a psychiatrist and not a writer.

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.

Tugs had felt a sense of possibility today as she made that small speech, and there had to be a way to get that feeling back.

If there was one thing that was truly American, it was the belief that it was always possible to start again.