Quotes About Aspiration

Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others.

Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

Tony Montana Me, I want what's coming to me. Manny Oh, well what's coming to you Tony Montana The world, Chico, and everything in it.

Dreamer lost

Života, stejn? jako sn?.

Always my soul hungered for less than it had. T. E. LAWRENCE, SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM

It's deep in human nature to look to the top to define our own behavior,

Like long lost love abandoned in forgotten letters, you lose yourself in others and dream their dreams, become their aspirations. When you look in the mirror, you see a black, blank picture of Them staring back and you vow not to, before giving in once again.

The experience made one thing crystal clear: You have to envision the focal point of your life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.

If you feel like you're being called to something, answer it. A dream you don't answer becomes a nightmare.

It's not about where you are today; it's about where you're going to be. We have to remind ourselves: This is where I am, but it is not where I'm always going to be.

Hope is what we all build lives for ourselves upon, is it not?

Full-on barking madness is a state of rational bliss to which you may not aspire. Men living in gutters and drinking their own piss would shun your company. You are a prancing lunatic.

challenging me to identify who I wanted to become and why.

Settle in your mind what you want, what your goal is with your writing, and then take steps to reach that goal.

You've learned that pride if often the first victim of ambition

I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.

This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing asserting itself with ever growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.

Castles in the air—they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. —HENRIK IBSEN (1828–1906), The Master Builder

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Each time I did assignments or editorials, I realized that I wanted to do something more. I saw that it wasn't just about the clothes.