Quotes About Aspirations

I have no Hollywood aspirations.

I always had aspirations to be the champion. I never gave up.

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming a singer.

I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.

I'm just going to continue to think about what kind of films I want to do and what's out there for me to audition for, and I love trying.

I was going to be a doctor, but who makes it as a doctor anymore?

At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.

When I was 14, I started playing for Taye Academy in the city of Owerri, and then my whole life became football. I dreamed of playing for certain clubs, or going places I'd never been before, but I just kept my ambitions to myself because I never really expected that I could get to these places.

I've got heaps of dreams.

I have pretty high aspirations for myself... And no matter what the situation, I'm going to stay driven.

I know people who've had dreams unrealised due to circumstances.

I loved writing when I was a kid and thought about being a writer then. But I didn't have the confidence or belief that I could earn a living that way, so I never took myself seriously.

Being working class, my parents thought, 'Ian's going to uni, the first in the family,' and I'd do dentistry or accountancy. I was going to do accountancy; then I got a C in Economics and thought, 'Why am I doing this?' The only thing I was interested in was books and literature.

My parents didn't know how to provide me with the encouragement I needed to achieve my dreams.

When you're young, you envision happiness in such an idealized way.

I think a lot of kids I've met in L.A. trying to act want to escape working long days and think acting is all photoshoots and red carpets.

Goals are essentially private things.

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

Your ideas, your dreams and your realities are the fuel that feeds the future.

it is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That's the way to soften up a democracy.