Quotes About Aspiration

Creation stories offer a glimpse into the worldview of a people, of how they understand themselves, their place in the world, and the ideals to which they aspire. Likewise, the collective fears and deepest values of a people are also seen in the visage of the monsters they create.

Girls had to believe in anything but their own power, because if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might.

There are a lot of people in this world who sell themselves short. They don't try to achieve their dreams because they're too paralyzed by the prospect of failure. You

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

The Cinderella story just never came true.

Because that's the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.

Soar high, sweet

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

When in the world did anyone die from a dream?

To believe in dreams is to spend half your life asleep.

Find what you want. I will find you.

He was a great poet They lamented. No, he was not a great poet, said Theo, He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

Once, he added, you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

As a boy, he had dreamed of taking a man's place among men; and, as a boy, had deemed himself well fit to do so. Now, amid the grizzled, battle-wise warriors, his strength seemed feeble, his knowledge clouded.

Henry glared at Anastasia. 'You quit planning on a rich husband, Anastasia. You're gonna get rich on your own. You and me, if we want husbands, fine. But we won't need them. Like our mothers. My mom could do just fine being a waitress, and your mom could do just fine being an artist. They got husbands 'cos they want them. That Bambie, now maybe she'll need a husband. But not you and me. Got it?

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.

a great man. But...not quite great enough.

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

Head in the direction you wish to arrive. Don't divert or divide yourself for a degree in English (unless you want to be a teacher) or articles in the local paper (unless you want to be a journalist). You become a fiction writer by writing fiction.

As I wish for you dreams that will soothe your soul, dreams that will whisper of secrets untold. I wish for you dreams that will capture your life, dreams so spectacular and bright you can know no strife. I wish for you my child, a dream as brilliant as sunrise, and warm as it's gentle rays. But most of all precious one, I dream for you, of many peaceful days.

This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.