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Quotes About Aspiration

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
~ Jessica Savitch
When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."
~ Alexandra Daddario
I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.
~ Tim McGraw
I've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had that feeling. I think my mother installed it when I was a little guy.
~ Tommy Chong
I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
~ Tanya Tucker
I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
~ Liza Minnelli
I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.
~ Bill Skarsgard
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
~ Bernie Worrell
Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.
~ Kristi Yamaguchi
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
~ Quintilian
At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
~ Rose Kennedy
For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
~ Amy Tan
My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
~ Jim Carrey
No mother who stands upon low ground herself can hope to place her children upon a loftier plane. They may reach it, but it will not be through her.
~ Julia Caroline Dorr
I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.
~ Jacqueline de Ribes
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
~ Simon Callow
My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
~ Christie Hefner
I'd like to buy my mother her dream home. Hopefully it will happen soon.
~ Zulay Henao
Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)
~ George R. R. Martin
Mother India has 250 crore arms, majority of which are of the youth, who have the capacity to fulfil India's dreams!
~ Narendra Modi
My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
~ Jerry Saltz
Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.
~ Zig Ziglar