Quotes About Aspirations

When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.

There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate.

Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

I could do great things, if I weren't so busy doing little things.

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

I think a lot of people have this idea that if you put something on YouTube you'll get famous overnight. It would be really great if that was possible, but that's not really how it works.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than our bodies.

It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.

Fear sees a ceiling. Hope sees the stars.

I always entertain great hopes.

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.

There is new hope among people that this dispensation can fulfill their aspirations.

I feel very lucky and very blessed. I just hope that I can keep doing my job and that people keep liking what I do and that the opportunities continue. That's the best that I can hope for.

I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much.