#aspiration

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future". ↗

— Henry M. Wriston

#dreams #economics #education #jobs #occupations

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#desire #expectations #fortitude #goals #golf

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#beauty #dreams #ducks #empowerment #fairy-tales

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations. ↗

— Alexandre Vinet

#aspirations #ceased #god #human #never

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it. ↗

— Kerri Walsh

#aspirations #children #give #go #go for it

You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#aspiration #because #fantasy #ideal #movie

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#aspiration #being #eat #happy #harmony

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#aspirations #banks #because #begin #community

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations. ↗

— Tom Wopat

#consider #country #departure #education #experience

It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#aspiration #before #certain #certain level #clearly