Quotes About Aspiration

The more I did, the more I wanted to do.

Well, if you are a writer, or would hope to be one, similar lists, dredged out of the lopside of your brain, might well help you discover you, even as I flopped around and finally found me.

The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.

Where would you like to go? What would you really like to do with your life?

What does your character want, what is his dream, what shape has it, and how expressed?

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadow are always longer. Only at noon can a man fit in his own shoes, his own best suit, for a few brief minutes. But we're in a new age where we can think up a Big Idea and run it around in a machine. That makes the machine more than a machine, doesn't it?

It's the rich who have dreams and rockets!

So, for thousands of years, you humans have needed kings, priests, philosophers, fine examples to look up to and say, 'They are good, I wish I could be like them.

Cuando no se puede tener la realidad, bastan los sueños.

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire. What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown earth! . . . The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires.

No influential friend would have served me better. She [the steamboat] had given me a chance to come out a bit-to find out what I could do. No, I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work-no man does-but I like what is in the work,-the chance to find yourself. Your own reality-for yourself, not for others-what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and can never tell what it really means.

A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

I had immense plans,' he irresolutely muttered.

A estrada seria longa. Todas as estradas que levam ao que o nosso coração almeja são longas

It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being.

una economía que crezca más rápidamente, con una prosperidad compartida en que el tipo de vida al que aspira la mayoría de los estadounidenses no sea ya más un simple castillo en el aire sino una realidad alcanzable.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

i know at last what i want to be when i grow up. when i grow up i want to be a little boy.

My fish dream is a sex dream.

Mindenki arra tanított bennünket, hogy magasrend? dolgok után vágyakozzunk.

I don't want to make sacrifices. I want to make dough.

Picture your ideal in life; live with this ideal. Let the ideal captivate your imagination; let the ideal thrill you! You will move in the direction of the ideal that governs your mind.

People, we're always reaching for these big things... you know? Big ideas... big moments... big lives. And all the while the little things we're ignoring are undoing us.