Quotes about Aspiration

If you want to be prominent, get out and try for something.

If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!" —Thomas Parke D'invilliers

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never short change yourself when you stretch your imagination.

America is too great for small dreams.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

If we're free to dare — and we are — if we're free to give — and we are — then we're free to shape the future and have within our grasp all that we dream the future will be.