Quotes About Aspiration

The empty picture frame is where you college diploma will go

Distant countries, heroic deeds and beautiful women spun around in our turbulent dream.

In America, it's where you end up that matters, not how you get there. As long as you get there, no one asks questions. You don't ask. You never ask. And if someone does ask how you got there? It's usually a harmless person who never got anything, never got out, died paying rent as he waited for God to deliver him.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

Aspettava da se stessa il sovrumano e dalla vita l'infinito. Ciò dava uno splendore di conquista ai suoi occhi, la forza al suo corpo fragile e finemente modellato, la bellezza ai suoi lineamenti rigidi. Ma ciò la rendeva vuota e fredda fino alla durezza, suscettibile fino alla punta delle dita e, come tutti gli orgogliosi, indifesa come un bambino nel profondo del suo cuore

Ci sono poveri per i quali il ricco non è un'aspirazione. Ci sono poveri, in sostanze e in spirito, renitenti alla leva. Ero ostile a quel modo di istigare uno a sopravanzare all'altro, per temperamento non per convinzione. Il male che mi insegnavi a riconoscere, io lo vedevo causato dalle persone. Mi sorvegliavo per non procurarlo, perché anche un rossore risparmiato a un altro fa parte delle proprie responsabilità.

L'utopia non è il traguardo ma il punto di partenza. Si immagina e si vuole realizzare un luogo che non c'è ancora.

Bisogna dunque tendere a ciò che si vuole, facendo quel che si può.

to effect large-scale changes in our lives and in the world, we need to hold large-scale visions in our minds and consciously pour our energy into them.

It ain't fair. Gifts is divided so damn unevenly. Like God just left his damn sack of talents in a ditch somewhere and said, "Go help yourselves, ladies and gents.Them's that get there first can help themselves to the biggest ones. In every other walk of life, a jack can work to get what he want. but ain't no amount of toil going get you a lick more talent than you born with. Geniuses ain't made, brother, they just is. and I just was not.

live always with your eyes cast forward, to seek what will be, for the path behind can never be retaken.

I want to know what I want. For in setting forth

Look forward to where you want to be and spend no time complaining about where you are.

Even if I was pretty, it wasn't going to be enough to bring me the life I wanted: one where I was free to make choices that mattered, one where people listened to what I had to say. Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus. I'd never get my hands on a thunderbolt, so if I wanted to be free, I'd better find a way to get my hands on the next best thing: a sword.

I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

But if we take the energies that make for aspiration and remove God from the picture, replacing him with our own crudely sketched self-portrait, we end up with ugly arrogance.

People don't walk into the top spot. They're driven. One

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly,but we can't bring it to achievement.

We're constantly buying airplane tickets we travel on the Concorde.

When you know what you want you usually get it.

If you want something enough you usually get it. But you have to take what goes with it.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

My only ambition in life is to grow and support growth in others.

I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.