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Quotes About Aspiration

Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
~ Orison Swett Marden
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
~ Andre Gide
I wanted to find something I was passionate about, something with the possibility of upward movement, and I wanted freedom. I need to be outside living life, not stuck in an office. I figured I could either be out selling condos in Miami, or I could move to L.A. and chase after that elusive actor's job.
~ Dawn Olivieri
My career has always kind of moved forward and upward. I've never had anything kind of stall out or go in the opposite direction. I've always kind of been moving in the right direction.
~ Tig Notaro
Man, I really think I was just fascinated with money... and I always wanted it growing up. I always wanted money... Once I got upwards in age, the older I got, the more fascinated I got with money.
~ Young Dolph
I'm lucky: I always wanted to be an actor. But I never felt the need to be in with the crowd. I didn't mind being on the outside. I was always looking forward or upwards, not in.
~ Luke Perry
I would love to play an urban working girl.
~ Bhumi Pednekar
I used to do a lot of plays in English, Hindi, and Urdu. I wanted to be an actor since I was three and a half.
~ Ajay Mehta
Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward, you will ask no other.
~ Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
You'll marry your studies? Marry your books? You already have one degree but you want another. You'll marry your degrees?
~ Chinelo Okparanta
Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.
~ James Thurber
Tell me about yourself - your struggles your dreams your telephone number.
~ Peter Arno
Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.
~ Charlotte Perkins
I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'
~ Dilma Rousseff
They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.
~ Ruth Handler
America's legacy has been crafted by generations of hard-working men and women who moved to the United States from all over the globe to pursue their dreams.
~ Charles B. Rangel
This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
~ Becky Lynch
After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
~ Farrah Gray
Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
If a man doesn't have a dream, then he has nothing to work for. Nothing to get up in the morning. No reason, no purpose, to be
~ Kai Greene
Work until your idols become your rivals
~ G-Dragon
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
~ Colin Powell
Follow your dreams and work hard. There's no replacement for hard work, and that's true for any field. If you work hard at it, you're going to see the fruits of your labor, I guarantee it.
~ Seth Rollins