Quotes About Aspirations

Sleeping, we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.*

Good intentions are certainly no guarantee of good results.

For a cat, he had very few aspirations. He didn't like the outdoors. Didn't like the way the grass felt on the pads of his feet. He was scared to death of birds. A severe case of over-domestication. Give

We control the content of our dreams.

'Atlanta' is really trying to put that out there: these are just the lives of these people in this city, and this city is its own breathing, living thing, too. So how do you navigate through life, especially with dreams and aspirations in a world that tells you that you don't deserve to have them.

I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share.

As fun as it is to be the nerdy best friend. I'm capable of more than that, and I feel that I have emotions to share, and there are roles I can add something to. I just hope there are other people who are willing to take that chance on me and let me tell their stories.

You can't go do the Green New Deal. It's a set of aspirations that don't really bring us to sensible action.

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.

I have immigrant, African parents. They would say, in their Nigerian accents, 'So you want to be a jester?' And I was like, 'I don't want to be a court jester, Ma. I want to be a comedian.'

I would love to have eight or nine kids with Gerard - my own futbol team.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.

a life she had never imagined could be hers. A life without the rigid limitations others had always set for her. They

Todo el mundo tiene sueños que no llegan a cumplirse —respondió ella con un tono suave.

I knew full well that none of those were the kinds of occupations they'd grown up dreaming about.

Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad.

I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically.

Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having--a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and when all the urgent reading, whatever that might be, has been done. We never arrive at that point, needless to say....

We are all more than our experiences And less than our dreams ~ from I Am Glass

Too often, those who do not dream seek to destroy the dreamer by waking him.

one element in the social revolution will be "that intelligent and truly noble part of the youth which, though belonging by birth to the privileged classes, in its generous convictions and ardent aspirations, adopts the cause of the people.

You can talk all you want about having a strategy for your life, understanding motivation, and balancing aspirations with unanticipated opportunities. But ultimately, this means nothing if you do not align those with where you actually expend your time, money, and energy. In other words, how you allocate resources is where the rubber meets the road.