Quotes About Aspiration

He craved an idea, inspired yet concrete, that would show a clear path and change the world for the better, an idea as unmistakable to a child or an ignorant fool as lightning or a roll of thunder. He craved for something new.

I'm Catholic In My Complications And Buddhist In My Aspirations' ~George O'dowd

Remember, just because something hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it's impossible.

Be daring, be daring, always be daring. There is no big dream unless you dream big.

I am Walt Disney. I know that the person who makes dreams come true is YOU.

From its earliest days, America has been an incubator of moral ambition.

Evelyn Marie wanted to turn him into a gentleman. Well, he wanted to turn her into his mistress.

Your life is an occasion - rise to it.

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something. –Maricopa

At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.

And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.

A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.

If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.

If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?

I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

I am made, crudely, for success.

Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.

Let me fly with you.

All my life I'd told myself studying and reading and writing and working like mad was what I wanted to do, and it actually seemed to be true, I did everything well enough and got all A's, and by the time I made it to college nobody could stop me.

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.

Something in me wants more. I can't rest.

What a man wants is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.