Quotes About Aspiration

one question. What do I really want to do? Not for my friends, not for my family. Not for perfect strangers. But for me. Finally. It was my turn, my time. And this is yours, Armand. Yours and Reine-Marie's. What do you really want?

I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don't have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I'll be a bloke, they don't have to make sense either.

Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.

Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat? Who doesn't have at least one pair of wax wings out in the garage?

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

Scale is not a destination. Don't get caught up in the narrative telling you to grow if growth isn't what you really want. Remember, big isn't the same as great.

You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?

My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.

After sticking out life, I hope it's whatever you want it to be.

Beliefs are the roads we take to reach our dreams. Believe you can do something—or believe you can't—and you'll be right every time.

What's left unfinished? What is it that you haven't done yet, that you need to do before you leave this life?

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I

He wondered why, after years of wanting to stand at the very top, he felt so goddamned empty.

I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love—well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it. As

I am; I was. I want to be.