aspirations quotes

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

My drive is other people’s success.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

Dream and you shall become.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

I always wanted a family.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

I don’t want to be an action star; action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

We’re all dreamers.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.