Quotes About Aspiration

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I start by getting snappy, then unhappy, and finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, if…there weren't any other people living in the world.

When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived! But, and that's a big question, will I ever be able to write something great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?

I can't keep that up...finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, if...there weren't any other people living in the world.

I've made up my mind to lead a different life from other girls, and not to become an ordinary housewife later on.

I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to!

I finally realized that I must do my schoolwork to keep from being ignorant, to get on in life, to become a journalist, because that's what I want! I know I can write.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be;

Temos muitos motivos para esperar grande felicidade, mas... precisamos merecê-la.

keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be

In one Way or another, the day would come when my name would be a household word and my picture would occupy a place of honour in the memory book of every damp-eyed film fan

that the dream must be vivid and continuous.

all of the great writers drank, except for Kafka and Nietzsche, neither of whom you exactly wanted to be when you grew up.

You may feel a little as if writing a novel is like trying to level Mount McKinley with a dentist's drill.

But he was too proud and too ambitious to be a coward. He had grasped what he wanted without flinching.

Never allow your dreams to be limited. You should aim for the stars. Live and die with your arms outstretched and your eyes seeking the next goal.

No one wants their dreams broken. Patriotism is a very powerful force.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.

People create these extravagant habitats because they have vision, love of beauty, hopes and dreams.

Of course all that these young bourgeois really wanted was to be aristocrats. They bought titles, married into aristocratic families whenever they could. And it's one of the little jokes of history that they got mixed up in the Revolution, and helped to abolish the class which in fact they really wanted to join.

People played with fact and fancy. Waitresses wrote novels at night that would make them famous. Laborers fell in love with naked movie queens in rented cassette films. The rich wore paper jewelry, and the poor bought tiny diamonds. And princesses sallied forth onto the Champs Elysées in carefully faded rags.

When we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true desires—what we would have when that which we do have so sorely disappoints us

You make me think of the old story about Alexander the Great. He wept when there were no more worlds to conquer. Will you