Quotes About Aspiration

La ladrona de libros había dado su primer golpe: sería el comienzo de una ilustre carrera.

I just want to write someone's favorite book.

And you're Cameron Wolfe. That' gotta start meaning somethin' boy. That's gotta start churnin' inside us, making us wanna be someone for those names, and not just another couple of guys who amounted to nothin' but what people said we would. No way. We're getting' out of that. We have to. We're gonna crawl and moan and fight and bite and bark at anything that gets in our way or tries to hunt us down and shoot us. All right?

I've come to the realization that I really only want to write books that maybe I can't write.

Mi nombre completo es Ed Kennedy. Tengo diecinueve años. Soy taxista menor de edad. Soy uno más de los muchos jóvenes que se ven en este pueblo próximo a la ciudad, sin demasiadas perspectivas ni posibilidades. Aparte de eso, leo más libros de los que debería, soy pésimo en la cama y un desastre haciendo la declaración de la renta. Encantado de conoceros.

It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my overall abilities in incompetence.

It was a nice dream, and an impossible one.

That paper-- it sits there, open at the employment section. It sits there like a war, and each small advertisement is another trench for a person to dive into. To hope and fight in.

No crime in wanting a little more

Nel corso degli anni ho visto tanti giovani che credono di correre gli uni contro gli altri. Non è così. È verso di me che corrono.

capability. Rudy was surprisingly good.

maybe everyone can live beyond what their capable of

My full name's Ed Kennedy. I'm nineteen. I'm an underage cab driver. I'm typical of many of the young men you see in this suburban outpost of the city- not a whole lot of prospects or possibility. That aside, I read more books than I should, and I'm decidedly crap at sex and doing my taxes.Nice to meet you.)

Believe in your dreams and they may come true. Believe in yourself and they will surely come true.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time

But that is what life is all about, he said. It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love.

The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?

But I was a dreamer, you see, not a weakling.

vestigia nulla retrorsum. Never look rearwards, but always to our glorious goal.

En enkelt gang er De sunket dybt. Lad nu fremtiden vise, hvor højt De kan nå op.

For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how high you can rise.