Quotes About Aspiration

What were you trying to do? Did you think you were a bird? Did you think you could fly?

Firestar made ThunderClan what it is now," he meowed softly. "I'll always try to follow his example. I hope I'm half the leader he was.

Was she really implying I will be Alpha one day? It seemed such a distant, fantastical prospect

Deputy? What was the point of being deputy? "I want to be the leader!" Crookedpaw

Ambition gripped Brambleclaw like an eagle's talons. Hard as it was to admit it, he knew that he wanted to be deputy, and then leader, of his Clan. Was this what Tigerstar had felt? he wondered.

I want so much to be someone important, or even just asked out by a boy every once in a while. Maybe the new me will be different.

The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm--it can creep, but it cannot fly.

A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

God is himself a vast medicine for man. It is the heart of God that carries restoration, inspiration, aspiration, and final victory.

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

That sense of power was all she craved.

We seem to have an insatiable thirst for places that don't exist, for griffins and wondrous dragons prowling the antipodes of a world we hardly recognize. They symbolize states of growth we haven't yet achieved.

I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again.

Move toward your dreams, not away from your problems.

She looked out at the crowd of people who loved her, her smile meant for each and every one of them. "So many of my wishes have already come true." Her grin grew wider. "And still, I want more. At

Greatness without models? Inconceivable. One could not be the thing itself -- Reality. One must be satisfied with symbols.

Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

you can do anything you set your mind to

a Hungarian girl with a completely unjustified belief in her own genius.

In a brilliant lecture written in 1944, C. S. Lewis described the fatal British obsession with the 'inner ring', the belief that somewhere, just beyond reach, is an exclusive group holding real power and influence, which a certain sort of Englishman constantly aspires to find and join.

If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

a dream can be the highest point of a life