#aspiration

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children. ↗

— Mark Sanford

#children #families #meager #means #needs

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#drop #people #tell #their #them

Aspire to high standards, expect strong results, offer self praise, and stack your confidence. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#confidence-and-attitude #praise #standards #attitude

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

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

— Iain Pears

#books #wealth #wishes #writing #dreams

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. ↗

— Victor Borge

#anything #aspirations #because #between #else

We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached. We hardly know how to doubt anymore. (“The Thing”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

#aspiration #progress #life

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#critics #doubts #work

Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking. ↗

— Ally Carter

#hope