Quotes About Aspiration

Jake fried up the fish, cooked rice with garlic, cilantro and green onions. Someday he was going to make some woman a wonderful wife.

Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'

But the past doesn't have to be the future. That's the point of something you aspire to.

John has always been searching for something," says Jennifer Irwin, McAfee's girlfriend at the time. She remembers him telling her once that he was trying to reach "the expansive horizon.

Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.

Dreams come a size too big so that we may grow into them.

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

Don't let fear hold you back from pursuing your dreams. Believe in yourself and go for it.

I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.

Bunch a buildings that outgrowed the sky.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

She had a dream about a tattoo. This was a pleasant dream. She was walking away and she had the most beautiful tattoo. It covered her shoulders, her back, the back of her legs. It was unspeakably fine.

A 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

En el mundo existen millones de personas con talento que viven sus vidas en silenciosa desesperación, atrapados en oficios de mierda. ¿Por qué unos van en metro y otros en su avión privado? Es una cuestión de carácter. De querer realmente lo que deseamos

Está na natureza humana desprezar o que está em baixo e odiar o que está em cima, até ao dia em que sobes de escalão e recomeças.

ideal de los villeros no es el de cultivar el comunitarismo, ni formar una microsociedad, ni preservar su "identidad cultural", sino salir de allí lo más pronto posible; incluso las familias de villeros más organizados y con mejor situación envían a sus hijos a escuelas lejos de las villas y los que tienen un trabajo dan un domicilio falso.

Marshall's resolve to use sociological studies in the schools cases was rooted in his life experience—as the son of a bright man who never got an education and never became more than a waiter. Marshall saw the same trap still catching many young black people. They were defeated at a young age by limits they accepted about their talents and their right to an education.

She looked like what all women wanted to grow up to look like:

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said that I either wanted to be a philosopher or a clown, and I understood then, I think, that much depended on whether or not I found the world worth philosophizing about, and what the price of seriousness might be.