Quotes About Aspiration

Don't you see? Hope is a good thing—a wonderful thing—but you must have hope in something appropriate. If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, then you stifle your own dreams of the future.

una persona es más que sus experiencias, apiladas como piedras. Pero nuestros mejores momentos son la base en que nos apoyamos para tratar de alcanzar el cielo.

I've always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I'm right on schedule.

The ability to move up the ladder was precisely the image, and might also have been the reality, of the United States in the nineteenth century and perhaps most of the twentieth.

Interestingly, admiration often leads to us wanting to improve ourselves. It doesn't, however, make us want to be like the person or thing we admire—we just want to be better versions of ourselves

We have the ability to set realistic goals (I know where I want to go). We are able to figure out how to achieve those goals, including the ability to stay flexible and develop alternative routes (I know how to get there, I'm persistent, and I can tolerate disappointment and try again). We believe in ourselves (I can do this!).

Make a list of the work that inspires you. Don't be practical. Don't think about making a living; think about doing something you love. There's nothing that says you have to quit your day job to cultivate meaningful work. There's also nothing that says your day job isn't meaningful work—maybe you've just never thought of it that way. What's your ideal slash? What do you want to be when you grow up? What brings meaning to you?

Setting realistic goals is a skill and a prerequisite for hope.

que você tentaria fazer se soubesse que não iria falhar?

Don't lose sight of the goal

you raise me up so i can stand on mountains you raise me up to walk on stormy seas i am strong when i am on your shoulders you raise me up to more than i can be

We should remember the wise adage that goals (or commandments, in this case) are stars to guide us and not sticks with which to beat ourselves.

I think I have shown in my daily life that my feet are on the earth while the tips of my thoughts touch the stars.

I'm taking a fresh look at the American Dream and who gets to live it and who doesn't.

He had drive and hunger somewhere, like a phantom limb, agitating faintly away in his gut. He'd been an ambitious young man, he'd gotten drunk just looking at the constantly changing face of the churning, radiant world.

All my life I've wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.

She filled my head with dreams, telling me I could become anything I wanted. I believed her so much I thought I could be white.

I remember asking her to tell me the secret of her charm and her growing success. As usual, she laughed. Nobody knows me. I never say what I think or what I'm planning to do. But I let everyone know that I have high expectations. I don't have to settle for less than the best. That way my value goes up, into the clouds!

The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most at this time. There is, of course, the problem of sustenance.

For youth can no more live without some kind of hero than it can without its daily supply of fresh air and vitamins.

Freedom, security, these were what they wanted. A life where fear, hunger, and hopelessness were not the only reality.

But dreams can be of value even if you don't have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

He doubted he would ever make it happen, but it made him feel a bit better, letting a dream form then watching it slowly fade away again. A

It is good to have a goal. You should hold on to it. People who have lost sight of their goal often begin to live in a careless manner.