"An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet

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"All you need is a dream to drive you nuts."

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"Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz."She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?""Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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"Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

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"Dreams are blueprints and what good are blueprints until a carpenter goes to work? Dream big, and bold and brazen, but then get off your butt and do the work to realize your own dreams."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"Don't go woman on me and tell me you don't need a man to complete you. It's bullshit. Woman looks like you, goddamn waste. But a woman who has the love you got to give, that's not a waste. That's a crying shame."

Kristen Ashley, American Novelist

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"I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Ambition, Future, Defiance, Past, Confidence

"I could not break records, so I decided to shatter them."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"All you need is a dream to drive you nuts."

"Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically."

"A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person's imagination."

"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."

"Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease."

"Dreams are blueprints and what good are blueprints until a carpenter goes to work? Dream big, and bold and brazen, but then get off your butt and do the work to realize your own dreams."

"Don't go woman on me and tell me you don't need a man to complete you. It's bullshit. Woman looks like you, goddamn waste. But a woman who has the love you got to give, that's not a waste. That's a crying shame."

"I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future."

"I could not break records, so I decided to shatter them."

Explore more quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death."

"He lives most life whoever breathes most air."

"For tis not in mere death that men die most."

"First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white."

"A woman is always younger than a man at equal years."

"Since when was genius found respectable?"

"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain."

"If you desire faith, then you have faith enough."

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