Quotes About Aspiration

Father is a school manqué ... He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed.

many developing countries, governments are becoming victims of their own success. Those who have joined the new middle class don't just want better government; they expect it. They demand it. This is the natural result of a larger international success story that is now visible even to those who haven't fully shared in it.

power is the goal of all ambition

One dreams all day as well as all night . . .

The world is not enough.

Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.

To take up the violin or any instrument was an act of hope, it implied a future.

Chi prende in mano un violino, o qualunque altro strumento, compie un gesto di speranza che comporta il desiderio di un futuro

These hands are steady enough, but they are large. Had he been a proper pianist - he's dabbled inexpertly - his ten-note span might be of use.

Anyone watching me might have thought I was consulting a reference book, I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for something, a version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favorite shoes... For it was my best self I wanted ...

Briony era una di quelle bambine possedute dal desiderio che al mondo fosse tutto assolutamente perfetto.

He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning.

The orange-red lipstick named "Hibiscus Frenzy" that was produced by a giant American corporation, which Glamora was paid to wear so that every factory and office girl in England and America and possibly Australia who aspired to look like her would buy it, glowed under the sun.

Had records so stellar, they had to lock their resumes in a drawer at night, so the golden light streaming from the pages wouldn't keep them awake.

One day, she'd find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.

I'm a hard-working young man who believes in myself.

Jim MacLaine was the hero of Ray Connolly's 1973 movie 'That'll Be the Day', about a young man turning his back on a university education at the turn of the '60s in order to try his hand in a rock n' roll band.

I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up book that I had read. It is the story of a young man who grows up to be a novelist. I finished it, and I wanted to write a book that made the reader feel the way I felt at the end of that, which was sort of both bereft and elated.

I was an earnest young man who just wanted to make music.

I'm conscious to know who I am as a young man and what I want to be off the field and how I want to impact other people.

As a young man I couldn't travel, nobody could travel, they wouldn't give us a passport. For many years I was trying to go abroad. And then one day I read in the newspaper about a new competition for composers, and the first prize was a trip to the West. I decided I must get the first prize, so I wrote three pieces in three different styles.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

It's true that many of the leaders who started at non-elite colleges as undergrads later attended prominent graduate schools in law, business, medicine, and so on. But the point is that they found their own way there - as young men and women in their early 20s, not teenagers pressed into action by parents and peers.

As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.