Quotes About Aspiration

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it.

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

Having a goal is a state of happiness.

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

Oh! may each youthful bosom, catch the sacred fire.

Some one once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied, T hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

I credit NTI, truthfully, with everything as far as where my head is and what my goals are and dreams are. I would say it was probably one of the most influential moments of my life, being there.

As I started to consider a career in music, I hoped for success, truthfully. I didn't imagine anything that would amass the level of the first record, but I hoped that I would be able to sustain a career.

When you grow up in New Orleans, like, the only way to be an artist is to be a 55-year-old black musician. That's basically what we wanted to be. If you had asked me very truthfully what I wanted to be when I was 16, the answer would've been, 'I want to be a 55-year-old black musician.'

There's always going to be a part of me that wants an Emmy. Truthfully, I'm probably more motivated by people being entertained. I'm more motivated by people being like, 'Oh snap! Did you see that?'

I'm not perfect but I always try to give of my best.

You always put some goal in your mind and you try to reach it. If you don't reach it, that's fine because you at least had something to look forward to.

I dream big. I think big. I try to go out and do it as big as I can.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

If you have a goal, you have to step forward and try to get it accomplished.

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

I must always try to do better because perfectionism, and the need to always have new goals and achieve them, is a state of mind that brings profound meaning to life.

Be thirsty to always try to achieve something more.

I'm by no means the person that I strive to be. I don't think anyone is the person that we strive to be. But I try.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.