Quotes about Aspiration

Follow your star, it's never too late, even if it doesn't quite happen as you expect.

Don't you ever mind, she asked suddenly, not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.

There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it.

Ah, he would take her beyond---beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul.

Undine's white and gold bedroom, with sea-green panels and old rose carpet, looked along Seventy-second Street toward the leafless tree-tops of the Central Park. She went to the window, and drawing back its many layers of lace gazed eastward down the long brownstone perspective. Beyond the Park lay Fifth Avenue—and Fifth Avenue was where she wanted to be!

Obviously he had aspired too high, or been too impatient; but it was his nature to be aspiring and impatient, and if he was to succeed it must be on the lines of his own character.

minnows who go to a whale to learn how to grow bigger are likely to be swallowed in the process.

An achievement is bondage.It obliges one to a higher achievement.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.