Quotes About Aspiration

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There is nothing more dangerous in life than dreams that come true...

Da Vinci composed what is perhaps the most outstanding employment application letter of all time: "I wish to work miracles.…" —LEONARDO DA VINCI

But everyone wanted to be a Big Swinging Dick, even the women. Big Swinging Dickettes.

Steal from those beneath you; attack those above you.

I'm doing something I always dreamed about doing, and it was about the most depressing moment I've ever had in my life

This was tricky. They had, right now, at home, boxes of letters addressed to Michael from college football coaches and boosters and just people who wanted to get to know the future star. They had a personal letter from Congressman Harold Ford Jr., who seemed to want to become Michael's friend, and a stack of letters from a football coach at the University of Alabama, who seemed prepared to offer his hand in marriage.

But she kept saying how brilliant he was. And he's all she talked about. And I fell in love with the image my cousin had of Mokund Thapa. I wanted to be like Mokund Thapa. One

When you say, "Whoa! I knew I was good. But I didn't know I was this good." After that it became a complete obsession for me. I was going to go to an IIT. My dad would come into my room at three in the morning, and I'd be studying! He would say, "Swaroop, you must go to sleep, you know."' Kittu

any person with the brains to get into the IIT's and the gumption to get himself to the United States was capable of all manner of miracles.

I am a petty god at the moment. You will find me more lordly and benign when I achieve the position of a greater god.

I would set out on a quest, a quest I could achieve without ever leaving

a child might possibly change his country; a man can only wish that he might change it.

the man used names like passwords, all of them with a brief life span. But this time the thief wished that he had owned the name earlier in his life. He spent the first day imagining moments from his past when he could have been 'Astolphe,' when he might have behaved and participated with more ease and subtlety just for having the epaulette of such a name.

Now it seemed to others he had choreographed the arc of his career in order to attempt this one trick on the world.

When the thousands of people sang the national anthem, with their right hands over their chest, I cried. It was as if we were singing about an America that we wanted but didn't have, especially the part about the land of the free.

To plant trees," Russell Page wrote in his memoir, "is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

We were martini people." I asked if he was a spiritual man. "Not really, though I think he would have liked to have been.

Beware of the gap: the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it, and you end up falling through.

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand.

I always try to emulate those I admire. Pamela Harriman, Coco Chanel, Wallis Simpson, Jean Harlow, Diana Vreeland.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

I love New York. You want to find out if you're any good? Try New York. Who sang that? Frank Sinatra? If you make it here, you can make it anywhere.