Quotes About Aspirations

I hope to be painting more and travelling. Maybe fall in love. Have a dog one day. You know, all the good things.

I still don't know what I'm going to be. I love acting. I would love to be an English teacher. I would love to be a housewife and have a chateau in the South of France, I would love to be a singer that travels to cafes around different towns.

If Beyonce and Jay-Z had been born and raised in Cuba, they would have merely survived, with no opportunity to realize their aspirations. Only in a land that treasures liberty and the pursuit of happiness can such dreams become a reality.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.

I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down.

It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.

We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.

I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you're growing up, you should pursue it.

It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss.

You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!

A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.

These elections won't be about the manifesto of parties, but about manifesto of the people and their dreams who want peace and prosperity.

Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.

wishes are like magnifying glasses they enlarge and focus an intention that is already inside us.

Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.

In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them to take to realise your goals.

Neglected dreams become regrets.

My aspirations never lay with boxing, but that's the way I was pushed. I was still a choirboy when I started boxing because I remember I went to choir practice every Wednesday night. I missed some Wednesday nights if I was boxing and then when I missed it I'd have to tell the choirmaster why. I had a battle between the choir and boxing. When my voice inevitably broke, boxing won.

Leadership is the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.