Quotes About Aspiration

I think of myself as someone who gives everything, and I wake up every day wanting to keep growing.

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

I started listening to The-Dream a lot. That's when I really got into writing songs. I like the way he put lyrics and makes his songs. So I was like, 'All right,' and I just started writing. That's when I started wanting to be a songwriter.

My big sister's an engineer, my oldest brother is a lecturer at Cambridge University, another is a kidney specialist, another is an engineer, one set up his own business, my other sister's training to be a teacher and there's me wanting to be a presenter.

I'd be lying if I said, 'No,' to wanting a lot of kids.

I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.

My whole childhood I grew up wanting to be a professional basketball player.

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I wanted to learn to sing the right way, but at the same time, I was playing Junior Olympic basketball, and I was playing point guard for my school. But I was wanting to get into entertainment, into music and film and television.

I don't know if I'll ever feel like I've made it. That is part of the reason why all of us, as artists, are always wanting more and working towards more and keeping busy. There is just so much that we all want to accomplish, and I just have so many goals that I haven't met yet.

I didn't set out wanting to be a fashion designer from the age of 3. It wasn't that kind of dream.

When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.

I never had a role model. I ended up wanting to be the best version of myself.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.

The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics.

I don't remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.

I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.

I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.

When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.

I grew up loving artists like the Spice Girls and Britney Spears - artists who seemed to live this fantasy lifestyle, and I remember always wanting to join these fantasy people in that world.

I was a very wanting child.

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

For years, I've been wanting to do something that has a bit more of a dramatical drive and combine it with some action.