aspirations quotes

Every artist wants something different out the game.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

I always entertain great hopes.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

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

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.