Quotes About Aspirations

I loved it and the only things that came between me and a career in the stars was an inability to comprehend science and a fear of flying.

Those of us committed to a queer life know that forms of recognition are either precariously conditional, you have to be the right kind of queer by depositing your hope for happiness in the right places (even with perverse desire you can have straight aspirations), or it is simply not given.

you can dream about something for so long, but sometimes reality doesn't exactly live up.

We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and tangible goals with priorities and time frames.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

When you meet someone for the first time instead of asking them what they do, you should ask them what they've always wanted to do. This conversation will be much more interesting.

I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

I'm 5 feet 7 but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

I can't play any horns. Every time I tried to take saxophone lessons as a kid ... I can't whistle. I don't know if that has anything to do with.

We would have visions in those days,a number of us did. Your young men will have visions and your old men will dream dreams

While the Citizen can entertain aspirations for the society as a whole and take pride in its achievements, the Taxpayer, as presently imagined, simply does not want to pay taxes. The societal consequences of this aversion--failing infrastructure, for example--are to be preferred to any inroad on his or her momentary fiefdom.

Le raccontai tutta la mia vita, non quella passata ma quella che avrei vissuto in futuro.

As important as high aspirations and ideals are, we have to do something with them, and that takes courage. "He without an ideal is sorry indeed; he with an ideal and lacking courage to live it is sorrier still. Know that" (1402-1).

Quando avrò una laurea in matematica, o in fisica, o in matematica e fisica, troverò un lavoro e guadagnerò un sacco di soldi e sarò in grado di pagare qualcuno che si occupi di me e cucini per me e mi lavi i vestiti, oppure troverò una donna che mi sposi e si prenda cura di me, che mi faccia un po' di compagnia per non rimanere da solo.

He asked whether I wanted to become an astronaut and I said I did. He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders.

I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.

The future has many names. For the weak, it's unattainable. For the fearful, it's unknown. For the bold, it's ideal. —VICTOR HUGO

we all have different dreams and ideas of what we want to create for our lives. In addition, I'm very clear that who you know, where you go and what you own are not the true measure of personal success.

Escribí todas aquellas cosas que ya no estaba dispuesto a aceptar en mi vida, todas las que ya no quería seguir tolerando, y todas aquellas en que aspiraba convertirme.

Otra clave para establecer metas u objetivos es jugar. Deje vagar su mente con libertad. Las limitaciones que tenga usted son las que usted mismo ha creado.

If I had a husband I should want a good one, a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart. Even if I were young and good-looking, I doubt whether I could please myself. As it is I am likely to be taken bodily to heaven, as to become any man's wife.

If we look to our clergymen to be more than men, we shall probably teach ourselves to think that they are less, and can hardly hope to raise the character of the pastor by denying to him the right to entertain the aspirations of a man.