Quotes About Aspiration

One of the bravest thing a child can do is dream, and believe it is truly possible. Brittney Ryan

When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing--or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don't and can't get anyway.

he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing — or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need, but don't and can't get anyway.

When I was growing up, I was taught that the future belonged to those who could imagine it.

Your dreams are your spirit, your soul, and without them you are dead.

I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.

The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.

the higher perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.

the greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine grace.

Nay, if there's room for poets in the world A little overgrown, (I think there is) Their sole work is to represent the age, Their age, not Charlemagne's, -- this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts!

What I have printed gives no knowledge of me--it evidences abilities of various kinds, if you will--and a dramatic sympathy with certain modifications of passion ... But I never have begun, even, what I hope I was born to begin and end--'R.B. a poem'.

A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one-- And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.

I judge people by what they might be--not are, nor will be.

the firmament. / And tho we ne'er may reach it, / we have tried / and in the trying / have learned, perchance / to make an orbit of our own.

The majority of famous men are not taken unawares by fame. On the wall of their minds hangs their own vision of what they ought to be and can be. They are not surprised by success when it comes; because they have seen it coming, and planned out its coming, in their dreams.

Anybody can dream an impossible dream. But only a few find a dream that's possible.

If you want to go to the ball, go.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Goals give life substance. - To strive actively to achieve some goal gives your life meaning and substance.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

You won't want what you cannot have

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

Talk about a dream, try to make it real