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Quotes About Aspirations

Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green house... It's still consumption. What matters in this world is the fulfilment of people's needs and the fulfilment of their aspirations.
~ Paul Hawken
A little-known secret is that being a pro athlete is not that great. It's a pretty short lifespan. I know all these parents are out there driving their children to be professionals, but so many pros will tell you, 'No, you don't want to do this.'
~ Timothy Olyphant
The professional world makes a lot of young amateurs dream, and to go from one to the other can inspire others, like me, when I heard stories of Didier Drogba and Adil Rami, who went from being amateurs to becoming pros.
~ N'Golo Kante
Presently [Bridey] said: "If I was Rex"—his mind seemed full of such suppositions: "If I was Archbishop of Westminster," "If I was head of the Great Western Railway," "If I was an actress," as though it were a mere trick of fate that he was none of these things, and he might awake any morning to find the matter adjusted—"if I was Rex I should want to live in my constituency.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbor's as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Adoramos a perfeição, porque não a podemos ter; repugná-la-íamos, se a tivéssemos. O perfeito é desumano, porque o humano é imperfeito.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Some people have big dreams in life which they never fulfill. Others don't have any dreams in life, and they don't fulfill those either.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I'm nothing. I'll always be nothing. I can't want to be something. But I have in me all the dreams of the world.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Lo que hay de mediocre en los sueños es que todo mundo los tiene.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Ho avuto grandi ambizioni e sogni turgidi - ma i sogni li hanno avuti anche il garzone e la sartina, perché tutti sognano. Quello che distingue le persone le une dalle altre è la forza di farcela, o di lasciare che sia il destino a farla a noi.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Algunos tienen en la vida un gran sueño y faltan a ese sueño. Otros no tienen en la vida sueño alguno, y a ese faltan también.
~ Fernando Pessoa
M-au încercat mari ambiÅ£ii ÅŸi am avut visuri nem?surate,dar tot aÅŸa au ÅŸi b?iatul de comisioane sau cus?toreasa,fiind vorba de visuri pe care ÅŸi le face toat? lumea:ne deosebeÅŸte doar forÅ£a de a le realiza sau norocul de a le vedea realizate.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I had great ambitions and extravagant dreams, but so did the errand boy and the seamstress, for everyone has dreams; the only difference is whether or not we have the strength to fulfil them or a destiny that will fulfil them through us.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Tengo en mí todos los sueños del mundo
~ Fernando Pessoa
Tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo
~ Fernando Pessoa
Zato on i napusti flautu, ushi?ena ose?anja, maštanja - jer svaki buržuj je, u jeku svoje mladosti, makar jedan dan, makar jedan minut, verovao da je sposoban za ogromne strasti, za uzvišene pothvate. Najobi?niji raskalašnik je snevao o sultanijama; svaki beležnik nosi u sebi ostatke nekog pesnika.
~ Flaubert Gustave Flaubert
That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.
~ Arthur Laurents
I'm a person who thinks realistically but has dreams and fantasies as well.
~ Granit Xhaka
You always want to fantasize about the future, and all the work you're going to put in, all the accolades, but you always forget the roadblocks that are right in front of you until they hit you and you have to go over them.
~ John Collins
I didn't think I'd do movies in Los Angeles. I never thought it would happen. In fact, it was not a fantasy. For me, I said, 'If ever I go there, they will ask me to do 'Legally Blonde 5.'
~ Denis Villeneuve
I want to go deep into fashion; I want to go maybe into acting. There's a lot of stuff I would like to go into.
~ Lil Peep
I don't know if I ever entertained an academic career, nor did I ever think I'd become a feature film-maker in the market.
~ Todd Haynes
I am not bothered about money. I have no dreams that feature money. I dream only of good cinema and good scripts.
~ Sreenivasan
When I entered the film industry, I hadn't dreamt that I would work in so many movies and opposite so many reigning and future heroes.
~ Waheeda Rehman