Quotes About Aspiration

I believe that there lives a burning desire in the most sequestered private heart of every American, a desire to belong to a great counter.

The white kids were going to have a chance to become Galileos and Madame Curies and Edisons and Ganguins, and our boys (the girls weren't even in on it) would try to be Jesse Owenses and Joe Louises.

The caged bird sings with A fearful trill of things unknown But longed for still and his Tune is heard on the distant hill For the caged bird sings of freedom.

Open your heart, fling your hopes high and set your dreams aloft. I am here to hold your hand.

I read more than ever, and wished my soul that I had been born a boy. Horatio Alger was the greatest writer in the world. His heroes were always good, always won, and were always boys. I could have developed the first two virtues, but becoming a boy was sure to be difficult, if not impossible.

Baby, the fifties are everything you've been meaning to be.

Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.

How to be the best that you can be

if you want to live forever, figure out what it is that you feel passionate about, then follow that dream.

Itulah, aku sadar, yang harus mulai kulakukan: berhenti berharap punya bakat yang lebih, dan mulai menggunakan bakat yang kumiliki sebaik mungkin.

I wasn't seeing much of a long-term career in waitressing—which, for a girl who doesn't even like standing up to wash her hair, can be brutal—

I'm sure everyone has something about themselves they'd like to change. To dance better, sing better, be stronger or taller. Zikhos snickered. The kings occasional touchiness about his height was well known. The king must have heard, because he said: In Zikhos's case: being smarter than a burnt steak.

I said, What's your goal in life? and winced at how corny and earnest I sounded. He looked away. He thought. I guess I'm trying to become a better man than the one I'm hardwired to be.

What Mal wanted, more than anything, was to be just like her mother. Exactly like her.

Es el reto al que nos enfrentamos todos. ¿Qué podemos hacer para mejorar nosotros y este país? ¿Qué podemos hacer para ser recordados? ¿Quiénes queremos ser?

What's certain is that I'm not going to be stuck with my parents' limited options. My mom graduated top of her class in the Philippines, but in America she cleans up vomit in a hospital, and my dad, the smartest man I know, drives a bus for a living.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

The tension between the vision and reality creates energy. This energy drives personal growth.

Failure to follow desire, to do what you want to do most, paves the way to mediocrity.

If you could have anything you wanted and it wouldn't be bad or wrong, what would that be? So

I believe we can successfully turn every aspect of our lives into a goal. If it bothers us, make it a goal. If we're aware something needs to be changed, make it a goal. If we want it, make it a goal.

But haven't all ambitious people something of the monstrous about them? You, sir, for instance, if you will forgive me, are a little bit monstrous.

20. Dreams Require Sacrifice The simple truth of life is that to get the things you really want, you will have to give up something else that you hold dear - whether it is your 'easy' life, your evening bar sessions, your comfort food or your time. Success requires sacrifice. Get used to it.

This quote from T.E. Lawrence means a lot to me: All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.