Quotes About Aspiration

When I was really little, I wanted to be our first woman president. I always knew I want to be the kind of grownup who makes people's lives better. And since that's pretty much the job of the President of the United States, it seemed like a good idea.

I need to see a woman president in my lifetime. Or the first Jewish president.

Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.

I aspire to be an icon in a womanly, healthy way. I don't want to be some skinny, gaunt model nobody can relate to.

If you can't see it, you can't be it. It's just having those brilliant women break out and do something - then other girls can say, 'I can do it, too!'

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.

Some women can probably be Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, but some of us can't.

Women are no longer just born to be married. We are here to compete with everyone and make a place for ourselves under the sun on our own.

'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

I want all Egyptian people to follow my way to improve themselves. We are a huge country. We have many children. I want everyone to dream and feel they can do something.

You're always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can't look at anybody and think 'I want to be Damian Lewis' - I'd be setting myself up for failure.

Presidents seem to fall into two positive categories: they're one of us, or they're heroes. Both McCain and Obama probably see themselves as potential heroes - presidents who will be looked up to, not presidents everyday people will remark are 'just like me.'

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the expectation everybody had apart from my parents. Honestly, I, too, wanted to be a scientist. I think it was the way Dad would explain us scientific theories and concepts that made the subject more intriguing.

My theory is that many of the things that move us are things we long for but find hard to do.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

I always had the theory that if you have a dream, chase it. And I'm chasing it.

My goal is to become a therapist by the time I'm 50.