Quotes About Aspiration

Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.

Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?

I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.

This is not ambition. This is desperation.

I am by now completely convinced that my downfall in life is going to be my inability to achieve computer nirvana like a true hacker or hackette. I think this lacking is the most unmodern facet of my personality—the career equivalent of having six fingers, or a vestigial tail.

Could I ever be a Craig? No. A person must be born into Craigdom, with its multiple ski holidays, complex orthodontia, proper nutrition and casual, healthy view of recreational sex. My

Ei s'immerge ne la notte, Ei s'aderge in vèr' le stelle. He plunges into the night, He reaches for the stars.

because it's not enough to have a dream—you need financing.

Aspiration is not so much a matter of the mind as of the heart, in that it is a reflection of what you cherish, love, and value most. You do not need to be reminded of what you truly love, only of what you do not love. And what you actually love is most truly reflected in your actions, not in what you feel, think, or say.

Success is man's god.

Would that I might get a mantle like unto the heavens!

Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.

But nothing will suit him now but the best! He's got on wonderfully, and naturally he wants something to show for it, but many's the time I wonder where it will end.

Surely, I thought, in a world where man has been able to put satellites in the sky and where men talk big about visiting the stars, there must be something that rouses you, that makes your heart beat, that's worthwhile searching all over the world to find!

Greta avevo capito com'ero fatto fin dal primo momento in cui mi aveva conosciuto. Non avevamo mai nutrito stupide illusioni l'uno sul conto dell'altra. Lei aveva il mio stesso tipo di mentalità, desiderava le stesse cose che desideravo io. Volevamo il Mondo, e non ci saremmo accontentati d'altro. Volevamo tutto ciò che la vita poteva offrirci. Volevamo soddisfare qualunque ambizione. Volevamo avere tutto, non volevamo negarci niente.

Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man.

Quién puede afirmar que aquel niño no podría haberse convertido en un gran músico o en el descubridor de la vacuna contra el cáncer? O algo menos melodramático: podría convertirse en una persona feliz y normal...

nu trecutul conteaza, ci viitorul.

It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.

if you're born on the wrong side of the wall, I can't see that it's wrong to climb over it.

It's—it's so lovely to think of things—and then for them really to happen!" cried Tuppence enthusiastically.

It is not the past that matters,but the future

And some look through a broken spyglass onto the horizon in search for gold

La dagaalanka rabitaanka naftu, waa furaha guusha ardayga.