Quotes About Aspiration

I really wanted to do 'Darna.' I invested so much time, so much effort.

think big about who you are and what you offer the world.

He had grown up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger faith than his faith in God. This was the land where no man had to bow. In this place at last a man could stand up free of the past, free of tradition and blood ties and the curse of royalty and become what he wished to become.

the first step towards greatness is taking the first step

The first step towards greatness is taking the first step -Michael Wright

What you don't wish for will always be beyond your reach.

No spirited mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength; it has impulses beyond its power of achievement.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Why can't it be the factories that are smashed to the ground, the sweater's dens that are consumed with flames, rather than the opera houses and the fine homes? Why should people living on a higher plane be dragged down to a lower, rather than those on a lower rising to a higher?

God preserve us from fuddle-headed young men who want money for building cloud-castles!

Dreaming isn't wasted time. The waste comes when you have these wonderful dreams, but you don't do anything to make them real.

Apparently, the princes had found the only four women in the universes who didn't dream of being royal, rich and adored by their husbands.

Humanity is like someone whose outstretched arms are reaching for the stars but whose feet are mired in the mud.

El destino no es cuestión de azar; es cuestión de elección. No es algo que hay que esperar; es algo que hay que conseguir. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Today is the beginning of a new dream.

Put your attention on your dreams rather than your dramas.

Have you never fantasized about facing him as an equal?

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

It seems to me we do ourselves a disservice when we over-praise a talent. It feels good to praise and idealize, but then we risk making art inaccessible to those who aspire.

The only answer a truly dedicated writer has to "What are your best books (or stories)?" is "My second best is the one I'm writing now, and my best is the one I'll be writing next.

I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.

These sorrowful musings on my imperfection were nothing compared to the awful realization that I had gained precisely nothing from reading the books of the very best writers; no avenues had opened up, no light gleamed ahead and it had done nothing but depress me. Wormlike, the awful thought began to gnaw at my heart that I should never make a writer.

And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.

It means what you are, wanting what you want and going after it without a sens od shame. People are slaves to rules.