Quotes About Aspiration

You are too gifted a person to be living in a state that borders on North Dakota.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

It sometimes happens that in relatively powerless and impoverished countries there arise men of enormous vision who are frustrated and offended by the limitations of their lives and seek to reach out for the stars on behalf of themselves and their nations.

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What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?" I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? "There is time," she said, "but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

That was always the trouble…everything a man wanted to do lay ahead of him.

I was raised up where folks looked to the hills, only up where we came from you hadn't chance to look much higher, we were that near the top of the ridge.

He put his hand upon my shoulder and told me that in the world were two kinds of people, those who wish and those who will, and the world and its good will always belong to those who will.

A man is as big as his dreams are. If you want to make big tracks on the land, you got step out and start walking.

There is no reason why anyone cannot get an education if he or she wants it badly enough and is persistent.

in the world were two kinds of people, those who wish and those who will, and the world and its goods will always belong to those who will.

that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her…

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~

I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle--something heroic, or wonderful--that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.

I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how. I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women

I should have cause to be proud of this year's work;' and Mrs. Jo sat smiling over her book as she built castles in the air, just as she used to when she was a girl, only then they were for herself, and now they were for other people, which is the reason perhaps that some of them came to pass in reality for charity is an excellent foundation to build anything upon.