Quotes About Aspiration

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I am proud to live in this country, where anything is possible.

I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best.

I am keen to prove myself as an actor.

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.

What I really want to do is, first of all, get my music out to the world. And then I would really just like to reach other kids all over the world and tell them to believe in themselves and prove to people that you can do anything you want.

It's just crazy to have a dream - have a plan - and then it all just kind of comes true. To me, that proves that you have to have a vision first.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

I don't want to be a glamour doll. I want roles which provide me the scope to perform.

If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.

I've been able to make a lot of money and live a lifestyle that I never dreamed of. And I've been able to provide for my family.

You love the light so much? I do, I love its hopes.

it was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired to that June night.

It eluded us then, but that's no matter —tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning——

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.

He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.

It is youth's felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

She wanted what most women want, but she wanted it much more fiercely and passionately.

he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen...

He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, but that is all.