Quotes About Aspiration

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

We need to stop shuffling service parts randomly and set our sights on a goal, something we are moving toward in every service element.

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

There I was, "striving to be something I would never want to be.

Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.

I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.

Wilde: I wish I'd said that.Whistler: You will, Oscar, you will.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. -James Ramsey Ullman

I want to be an Avenger.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. —IPHIGENIA, A TRAGEDY BY QUINTUS ENNIUS (239–169 B.C.)

Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream.

Whatever ought to be, can be.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Don't sleep through your dreams.

They served the rich, and tried to think that they were rich.

But it was also a bit like a failed artist working as a security officer at an art gallery, or a failed author working in a bookshop. There's a constant reminder of how close you are to the thing you want, and how far away from it you are.

What fired in Lincoln this furious and fertile time of self-improvement? The answer lay in his readiness to gaze in the mirror and soberly scrutinize himself. Taking stock, he found himself wanting. From the beginning, young Lincoln aspired to nothing less than to inscribe his name into the book of communal memory.

The story of Theodore Roosevelt," one biographer has suggested, "is the story of a small boy who read about great men and decided he wanted to be like them.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition