Quotes About Aspirations

I don't think I would want my children to enter into my profession. There's a lot of stress and so much competition. There are easier things you can do with your life.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

If you have unfilled dreams and visions of greater prosperity and success tucked in a corner of your mind, don't keep them there any longer. Dare to bring them out and dust them off.

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

Then, when they had thus passed the day in building castles in the air, they separated their flocks, and descended from the elevation of their dreams to the reality of their humble position.

What my family seeks in this marriage is prestige; what I seek is happiness.

Sometimes the dreams that came true are the dreams you never even knew you had

It's always the poor who are crushed under rich men's ambitions. And yet they rarely complain, because ... well ..." "They dream of having towers o' their own?" Cosca chuckled. " Why, yes, I suppose they do. They don't see that the higher you climb, the further you have to fall." "Men rarely see that 'til the ground's rushing at 'em.

Could we possibly be from the place we want to be? Were we from the place we died rather than the place we were born? Are our aspirations our home? Maybe we are from that place to which we're bound, and that's why desire hurts so much, this longing to find a place to rest, to get home. We're not from the past, but the future.

I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.

What did you want to be when you grew up? What about now? What's on your "bucket list," those things you want to do before you die? What is your calling, the work of your heart and soul? Talk about one of your happiest memories. What made you happy? What could happen out of the blue that would be like a dream come true? What do you want for your children/loved ones that money can buy?

A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'

I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.

no hable sobre cómo está. Hable sobre cómo quiere estar.

While Man's desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err.

A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.