#aspiration

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#aspirations #began #book #child #done

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? ↗

— Robert Browning

#heaven #inspirational #inspirational

Always aim for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#inspirational #inspirational

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Allen

#become #controlling #desire #dominant #great

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#around #aspirations #deeper #destiny #ends

I want to make something of myself. I believe it’s called a statue. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#art #aspirations #bizarre #funny #goals

Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#cannot #china #class #develop #economy

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ↗

— James Robertson

#arrogance #aspirations #entitlement #perception #youth

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#dreams #taking-chances #dreams

I have the mind to do so many fields, careers, jobs, and hobbies; but I have the heart to do few fields of work, careers, jobs, and hobbies ↗

— Temitope Owosela

#dreams-aspirations-success #dreams-inspirational #goal #life #dreams