Quotes About Aspiration

I like to read great books not because I'm hoping to imitate them but because I want to remind myself how good you have to be to be any good at all. We won't be read in the light of other writers in our zip code or decade but as we compare to Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov. History has set the bar very high, and one must jump over it, not do the limbo under it.

Despite my fears and my aching loneliness, I believed without a doubt in a better world, which was adulthood or New York or Paris or love.

Una cosa es planear las cosas en la cama, en las noches de desvelo, con los ojos clavados en el techo. Ejecutar el plan con el que soñamos es otra cosa bien distinta.

Let the boy win his spurs.

There's nobody doesn't want something.

First just try to hit the moon … walking on its surface is for another day.

With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets

If you want to get ahead, get a hat.

Be all that you can be.

Climb highClimb farYour goal the skyYour aim the star.

Teachers touch the future.

We want bread and roses too.

A dreamer of dreams.

If the good Lord had wanted people to stay on the ground, he would have given us roots.

Thou hast given him his heart's desire.

Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them.

I don't want tips from the kitty. I'm in the big game with the big players. My experience I can give you in a nutshell, and I didn't dream it in a dream either. Dog eat dog. In brief: from now on the best of everything is good enough for me.

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.

I'd consider being a farmer. As long as I could live on the Pepperidge Farm. And raise Milanos.

A dreamer lives for eternity.

A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.

Be more than a human being

Life is about making dreams come true.