Quotes About Aspiration

Ever since that day, success in politics has meant that people who aspired to public office had to give the illusion of democracy while delivering the reality of oligarchic rule.

Somewhere over the rainbowBluebirds fly.Birds fly over the rainbow—Why then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one.

You are like the angel in Cole's picture of life! You point the youth to the far-up temple of fame-" "And leave him to get there as he can? Not at all, madam!

I begin to think a body may get any reasonable thing in this world if they will only try hard enough for it!

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

We merely want a small house with large rooms, and plenty of them.

There was simply the sense that she had found wings, and meant to use them.

I shall want to live, I tell you.

But though she spent nearly seven lire, the gates of liberty seemed still unopened.

You've not been content to dream, as we have.

They had all passed up that narrow, rich staircase at Wickham Place to some ample room, whither he could never follow them, not if he read for ten hours a day. Oh, it was no good, this continual aspiration. Some are born cultured; the rest had better go in for whatever comes easy. To see life steadily and to see it whole was not for the likes of him.

China puts her hand on my palm. Her fingernails are baby blue with miniature clouds airbrushed at the tips. She saved three weeks of allowance for that sky.

A man's reach must exceed his grasp, dear boy, or what the dickens is a heaven for?

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated?

Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. It's the person who says, "I'm going to become this and then progressively works toward that goal.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

It's not your present circumstances that count; it's the circumstances you make up your mind to achieve that are important.

we come to a rather strange fact. We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can achieve, and yet, for an equally strange reason, we think others can do things that we cannot. I want you to know that that is not true. You do have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you and you can have the things you want.

A success is anyone who is realizing a worthy predetermined ideal, because that's what he or she decided to do …

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal.

Think about your goal in a relaxed, positive way. Picture yourself in your mind's eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you will be doing when you have reached your goal.