Quotes About Aspirations

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.

Non capisci, Nimi sogna solo per poter raccontare. E poi, i suoi sogni, non smettono nemmeno dopo che si è svegliato, la mattina.

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations. - Two Kinds

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Je sens en moi, confusément, des aspirations extraordinaires, des sortes de lames de fond, des mouvements, des agitations incompréhensibles, et que je ne veux pas chercher à comprendre, que je ne veux même pas observer, par crainte de les empêcher de se produire.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

When you were a little girl, madam," he said, gesturing to her, "was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

The immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment. Only when this has been done will he possess the national consciousness of an American.

But when Danielle thinks of the future, she thinks of fifth grade, maybe sixth grade. She wishes to be able to graduate from Stoneybrook Elementary. When Kendra thinks of the future, she thinks of college, of being an adult, of becoming a writer. Kendra has a future. Danielle has a future, too, of course, but hers is much more uncertain.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.

The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

Unsere Wünsche sind die Vorboten der Fähigkeiten, die in uns liegen.

Siempre que tenga deseos y aspiraciones, el hombre puede equivocarse.

la tierra, no te será prohibido intentarlo. Siempre que tenga deseos y aspiraciones, el hombre puede equivocarse.

To set high goals, to have almost unattainable aspirations, to imbue people with the belief that they can be achieved—these are as important as the balance sheet, perhaps more

Most important of all, Mandela stated that the way to a negotiated solution lay in a simple-sounding formula: reconciling white fears with black aspirations.

I question whether the spiritual life does not get its surest and most ample guarantees when it is learned that the laws and conditions of righteousness are implicated in the working processes of the universe; when it is found that man in his conscious struggles, in his doubts, temptations and defeats, in his aspirations and successes, is moved on and buoyed up by the forces which have developed nature.

Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.