Quotes About Aspirations

A veces me gustaría volver a ser el que era cuando soñaba con llegar a ser el que soy.

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.

Thus his penchant for artificiality and his love of eccentricity could surely be explained as the results of sophistical studies, super-terrestrial subtleties, semi-theological speculations; fundamentally, they were ardent aspirations towards an ideal, towards an unknown universe, towards a distant beatitude, as utterly desirable as that promised by the Scriptures.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams . . . and what we do to make them come about.

Aspirations inspire us, while expectations simply lead us into cycles of hope and fear: hope that what we want will happen; fear that it won't.

It's as though the inhabitants of the cities were outdistanced by the wisdom and the aspirations of the cities themselves. Things have a better feeling for the future than people do. People feel historically, i.e. retrospectively. Walls, streets, wires, chimneys feel prospectively. People get in the way of progress. They hang sentimental weights on the winged feet of time.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

The needs, tastes, aspirations and interests of mankind are neither similar nor naturally harmonious; often they are diametrically opposed and antagonistic. On the other hand, the life of each individual is so conditioned by the life of others that it would be impossible, even assuming it were convenient to do so, to isolate oneself and live one's own life. Social solidarity is a fact from which no one can escape.

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

My future is full - it is limitless - and my passions for America will remain.

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer.

I think it's important that we remind everybody that America was never great in itself. It's been great in its aspirations.

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

There were reports that my elder daughter Ashwami was in 'Dabangg 3,' but she is a chef, and never wanted to be an actor.

I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.

Lately, I have realised that as an actor, I am representing certain aspirations to the world, and it's important that I respect the love people have for me.

I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

We're all idealistic when young.