Quotes About Aspiration

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I've loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler.

Thought gives rise to desire.

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

Some people settle for what they're given instead of working hard for what they want.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

I just want to do cool stuff.

if one characteristic of Lyndon Johnson was a boundless ambition, another was a willingness, on behalf of that ambition, to make efforts that were also without bounds.

What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

that she looked upon a future career as a stage shot, and she went to her first performance with the assurance of one who had been doing it always.

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

Life, as we know it, could hardly continue if men did not soon slay the dreamer inside them

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

Reciprocity is certainly not a good basis for a morality of aspiration. Yet it is more than just the morality of egoism. It

Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay

revolutionaries are more likely to be those who have been given at least some taste of a better life.

One final tip before you get started: Set a goal and write it down. Whatever the goal, the important thing is that you set it, so you've got something for which to aim—and that you write it down. There is something magical about writing things down. So set a goal and write it down. When you reach that goal, set another and write that down. You'll be off and running.34

How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?" "Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but the wrong crowd doesn't seem to want me." "Don't quit," I said. "You want something, you go after it. I was nearly thirty-five before I could get in with wrong crowd.

Watch that lad going down the street, his eyes are looking far out. Is his vision across the prairie or over the grey-backed seas? At any rate, it isn't here. Don't I know it!

The human soul aspires to higher things than the society columns of the New York Sunday papers, and the frivolous chatter of an overheated ballroom.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?"

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.