Quotes About Aspiration

It's about the courage to go for what you want, not just what you think you need. Sometimes, we don't even know what that is.

So many things we ask for, hope for, prayers put out into the world so wide: there was no way they could all be answered. But you had to keep asking. If you didn't, nothing even had a chance of coming true.

What would you do, if you could do anything?

perfect was just over the next hill, close enough to make out the landscape. And it wasn't a place he would just visit. He was going to live there.

She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.

It does not matter how long we have been kept in cages. It does not matter how strong your gravity is. We were always meant to fly.

The trouble with setting goals is that you're constantly working toward what you used to want.

Sarah Mlynowski

defying gravity.

Successful people always have their next goal in mind.   Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Whatever You're Dreaming, Dream Bigger

Sometimes I wished I could become a shoemaker too.

I would never make a lion, I knew that; but I might pick up a small gain here and there in the attempt.

I want! I want! I want!

Some men seem to know exactly where their opportunities lie; they break prisons and cross whole Siberias to pursue them. One room holds me.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul!

Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves.

La gente non fa le cose per cui ha un vero talento, ma quelle a cui la spinge la preoccupazione. Se sono bravi a riparare le automobili, devono cantare il Don Giovanni; se sanno cantare, devono fare l'architetto; e se hanno il bernoccolo dell'architettura, vogliono diventare ispettori scolastici o pittori astrattisti o qualunque altra cosa. QUALUNQUE COSA!

I am giving up the violin. I guess I will never reach my object through it," to raise my spirit from the earth, to leave the body of this death. I was very stubborn. I wanted to raise myself into another world. My life and deeds were a prison.

I know that I don't have to be next year what I was last year. I've been at one end and I can get to the other. There's no limit to what I can be. And even if I should miss being so dazzling, I know the idea of it is genuine.

I felt singularly ashamed of not being a doctor.

Everybody wanted to be what he was to the limit.

it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;

Happiness has more to do with where you are heading than where you are.