Quotes About Aspiration

Then, when I've got a degree in maths, or physics, or maths and physics, I will be able to get a job and earn lots of money and I will be able to pay someone who can look after me and cook my meals and wash my clothes, or I will get a lady to marry me and be my wife and she can look after me so I can have company and not be on my own.

Then, when I've got a degree in maths, or physics, or maths and physics, I will be able to get a job and earn lots of money and I will be able to pay someone who can look after me and cook my meals and wash my clothes, or I will get a lady to marry me and be my wife and she can look after me so I can have company and not be on my own.

I used to have dreams that everything would get better. Do you remember, you used to say that you wanted to be an astranaut? Well, I used to have dreams where you were an astranaut and you were on the television and I thought that's my son.

He wanted actually to live inside the dream that captured his eye, to spend his days and nights in a fume of burnished gold.

I wish that, like you, I could have spent my life transported aloft, as it were, every day, in music. Instead, I've lived like a caffeinated parrot.

Por dios, ¿por qué toda la gente quiere ser Paris Hilton y nadie quiere ser Spider Man?

The Pain of Becoming For the flower, it is fully open at each step of its blossoming. We do ourselves a great disservice by judging where we are in comparison to some final destination. This is one of the pains of aspiring to become something: the stage of development we are in is always seen against the imagined landscape of what we are striving for. So where we are—though closer all the time—is never quite enough.

Quand j'étais enfant, le luxe c'était pour moi les manteaux de fourrure et les villas au bord de la mer. Plus tard, j'ai cru que c'était de mener une vie d'intellectuel. Il me semble maintenant que c'est aussi de pouvoir vivre une passion pour un homme ou une femme

What are our expectations? Which of the things we desire are within reach? If not now, when? and will there be some left for me?

What destroys the dream? What destroys it, eh?..........Disappointment. Disappointment. Disappointment.

But you could viddy a like gleam in his glazzies, because now he would be taking over for this nochy. Power power, everybody like wants power.

This ideal conception?that one should have an aim in life?had, indeed, only too often occurred to me as an unsolved problem; but I was still far from deciding what form my endeavours should ultimately take.

Widmerpool still represented to my mind a kind of embodiment of thankless labour and unsatisfied ambition.

Even then I did not recognise the quest for power.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

Goals are like magnets. They'll attract the things that make them come true.

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be, precisely determine what we will be.

The only reason we don't have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can't have them.

Para mí, el éxito está en la continuidad del esfuerzo de quien aspira a más.

What makes most people just dreamers versus those who live the dream is that dreamers have never figured out the price of their dreams.

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves." —ORISON SWETT MARDEN

All men dream, but not equally. —T. E. LAWRENCE

forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less than I could be.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?