Quotes About Aspiration

Some want it to happen. Some wish it would happen. Some make it happen.

Unii vor ca un lucru sa se intample. Altii isi doresc ca lucrul sa se intample. Iar altii il fac sa se intample.

I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.

They lived their lives as if their sights were set on the clouds beyond the hill they were climbing.

When I stood behind Yama-san in his director's chair next to the camera, I felt my heart swell with that same feeling—"I've made it at last." The work he was doing was the kind that I really wanted to do. I was standing in the mountain pass, and the view that opened up before me on the other side revealed a single straight road.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

A buddha's mission is to rescue living beings trapped in the worlds of transmigration. A buddha appears in the world as a result of his aspiration toward enlightenment in former existences and his accumulation of various kinds of practice in a single world system (or, some say, in a trichiliocosm, described in chapter 4). ??kyamuni, th Buddha who appeared in India, was one such buddha.

The World Is Yours

Contrary to what is all too often claimed, voters do not wish the men they have elected to be in their image. Voters love greatness and are capable of recognizing it. They love courage, even when they personally lack it.

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

For some reason, leatherbound copies of the goings-on in Congress lined the shelves of our living room, and I pored over them when I was 12. I had never read anything so funny," Alda said. "From then on, I knew I wanted to do comedy.

I wish I could jump like that," he thought. "Some can and some can't. That's how it is.

Some day I'll find out what I want to do when I grow up.

You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.

I looked up at the rack of magazines on the wall. There was a handsome man on the cover of one, smartly dressed in a shiny grey suit, striking a dynamic pose. It was an appealing image, but I didn't want to be like him, I didn't want a change of life. I've never not wanted to be me.

We're all capable of more, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Keep chasing those dreams, through hard work you'll eventually catch them.

I was as you are now. A peasant. I sought the world. Because the alternative was to spend the rest of my life looking up a plowhorse's backside.

And without a dream, without ambition, what point was there to living?

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

Lack of ambition is for baseline humans.]

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.