Quotes About Aspirations

My parents' biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn't fathom me acting for the rest of my life.

How is it we're the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish—not sit intending on a chair.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Some people never have anything except ideals.

Having essential goals in mind makes daily decisions clearer.

I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.

Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up.

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.

The straining of dreams against the fabric of reality. Growing up meant burying possibilities, one after another.

Fifteen and a half years as incontestable, a continent he'd never visit, a staircase he'd never climb.

Insecure people don't get threatened by dreams; they get threatened by dreamers who move forward into those dreams.

But that's how it is when you're a kid, isn't it? You have all these dreams and, unless you're lucky, they never amount to anything.

I thought most kids would give their right arm to go into outer space," Shulsky added unhelpfully. "Haven't you ever dreamt about becoming an astronaut?" "No," Alex said. "I always wanted to be a train driver.

People like me on the centre-left of politics have a fight on our hands. Our job is to appeal to people's hopes and aspirations by providing real answers to the challenges facing our country.

News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage.

My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.

I wasn't entitled to dream so big. The idea of me being a writer wasn't even possible in my mind. Even when I began to write and first published, I couldn't call myself a writer.