Quotes About Aspiration

Don't you understand that men will never do more than dream of peace?

Would that it were true, would that all the poems and paintings of the world were but a mirror of such hopeful splendor.

What's the point of living if you don't try to do things better?

It's never too late to do what you want to do.' Remember that.

I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.

getting what you wanted never turned out the way you'd thought it would.

I don't want to be ugly all my life. I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say." "I'd rather have something to say.

Sometimes wanting isn't enough, Alek. You know that.

Shay, I never would have gotten used to the idea. I don't want to be ugly all my life. I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say." "I'd rather have something to say.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

People settle. They settle for less than they are capable of.

Mediocre is merely a failed attempt to be really good.

Tiffany's blue box is a slogan without words. It stands for elegance and packaging and quality and "price is no object.

Es posible aprender a ver cómo el ser humano sueña, decide y actúa. Y si ayudas a la gente a ser una mejor versión de sí misma, a ser la persona que quiere ser, serás un buen profesional del marketing.

on our way to becoming the person we seek to be.

good is bad, if bad means "not a profitable thing to aspire to." And perfect is bad, because you can't top perfect. The solution lies in seeking out something that is neither good nor perfect. You want something remarkable, nonlinear, game changing, and artistic.

Everyone wants something that they can't possibly have. And if they could have it, they'd discover that they didn't really want it all along.

Everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself. The people around you realize this, and they are ready to follow if you're ready to lead.

I wished I had some heroes, one or two people self-aware enough to be bigger than their smallest hungers

Walking gets too boring when you learn how to fly.

If I could sprinkle some hopes over all of you, they would include these: I hope you each find a meatball in the spaghetti of your life; I hope your talcum powder never empties, that your spirit is like a cork and that you all live a thousand, thousand lives. Huzzah!

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

The intelligent, autonomous, aspiring young woman with a mind of her own, her own wishes, desires and ambitions, is an individual most Indian men cannot come to terms with.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.