Quotes About Aspiration

An intelligent act is something you do that moves you closer to something you really want.

It Doesn't Matter Where You Came From. All That Matters Is Where You Are Going

All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Resolve today to think and talk only about the things you want in life and refuse to talk about the things you don't want.

Deep down inside, the average person knows that he or she is put on this earth with amazing capabilities. He or she knows that there is something better than this.

you become what you think about most of the time.

Once you have decided upon your goal, ask yourself, "Why am I not there already?" What is holding you back? Why haven't you achieved that goal up to now?

ideas y desarrollas otros nuevos. No importa de dónde vienes, lo que de verdad importa es a dónde vas. Y esto únicamente está limitado por tu imaginación.

Para incrementar tus ingresos, debes lograr tus propósitos económicos en tu mente antes de que puedas lograrlos alguna vez en la realidad. Tu propósito debe ser elevar tu concepto de nivel de ingresos poco a poco hasta que pienses, te veas y te sientas como alguien que gana ingresos más altos.

I'd known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I'd pore over the acknowledgments section of novels I loved, daydreaming that someday a brilliant talent might see me as the person who 'made her book possible' or 'enhanced every page with editorial wisdom and insight.' Could I be the Maxwell Perkins to some future Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe?

Peu importe le rêve, qu'il soit ambitieux ou grandiose, quelqu'un finira par le réaliser. Autant que ce soit vous.

Dreams soon assume substance

It's queer to think how many little guys there are like that, with more ability than push, sucked in by one wave and hurled out by the next, for every Sammy Glick who slips through and over the waves like a porpoise.

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.

I could live here forever. Maybe even become real New Yorker someday.

Your moustache," I continue. "It's kind of like me wanting to be a writer. It's part of me. I don't know who I'd be if I didn't want to be a writer.

I feel sick. It's one thing to write for the school newspaper. But New York is on a whole different level. It's a mountain, with a few successful people like Bernard at the top, and a mad of dreamers and strivers like me at the bottom. And then there are people like Viktor, who aren't afraid to tell you that you've never going to reach that peak.

She had very little money, but she wasn't afraid-there was only one place to go, and that was up.

It's not what I can afford, it's what I want to afford.

But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was always someone who was richer, more successful, more famous.. The idea of it was sometimes enough to make you want to give up.

As long as one refuses to know one's place, there's no telling what one can do in the world.

There are a great many things I would do a study on if I had the time, materials and funding. It bothers me that I can't. I wonder if others are irked by this, this incessant drive to plumb a million things and the inability to delve adequately into any one of them.

What is it you want from me Dad? You want me to be the big basketball star you never were?-Scott

Now, re-reading Macauley by firelight, Sammy Tigertail struggled to envision the noble and fiercely insulated culture so admiringly documented in those pages. He wondered what the journalist-preacher would say about the twenty-first century clans that eagerly beckoned outsiders to tribal gambling halls, tourist traps and drive-through cigarette kiosks. For not the first time the young man contemplated the crushing likelihood that the warrior he aspired to become had no place to go.