Quotes About Aspiration

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

It's a town full of losers, and I'm pulling out of here to win.

Lesson: In the real world, ninety-nine cents will not get you into New York City. You will need the full dollar.

It didn't take me long to figure it out: I didn't want to meet the Beatles. I wanted to BE the Beatles.

Meet me in a land of hopes and dreams.

I won the school essay contest!" Laszlo piped up in English. "I get to stay with the president today!" Maya swallowed hard. "That's great, kid. You must be really proud." "I am the future," Laszlo confided shyly. "I'm a big ragamuffin," Maya said.

Getting what you want is a serious matter. It is far more transformative than frustration.

all clung to the hope that whenever America fell short of its ideals, young Americans could restore them.

resumiremos a nossa ambição nesta orgulhosa divisa: um ator para cada gesto

For Schaeffer "rationality" means mankind thinking in a way that is not contrary to reason, or as he put it, "man's aspiration of reason is valid.

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: "What can I do today to make my life better?" "What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?

You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.

how would you account for the mail Sammy drew from all over the country? From insurance companies in Hartford, from chain stores in the South, from mail-order houses in the Middle West, people were writing that I could not have written Sammy without personal knowledge of their own mail-room boy who had run over their backs to become office manager, and in some cases company president.

Why shouldn't a madman dream of being sane?