#aspiration

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point. ↗

— Anna Sui

#beyond #business #clothes #concerts #designing

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache. ↗

— Iain Pears

#contentment #desires #dreams #longing #dreams

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#anger #aspiration #control #forgiveness #grow

Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#aspirations #fame #goals #goodness #inspirational

Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today. ↗

— James Dean

#aspirations #carpe-diem #inspirational #dreams

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#dream #work #dreams

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. (From an introductory speech at a session of the Académie Française, December 24, 1896) ↗

— Anatole France

#aspirations #belief #dreams #dreams

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#aspirations #confidence #dreams #faith #dreams

I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#admire #aspiration #aspire #character #desire

The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#children-s-reminiscences #inspirational #inspirational