Quotes About Aspiration

I CARRY inside my heart, As in a chest too full to shut, All the places where I have been, All the ports at which I have called, All the sights I've seen through windows and portholes And from quarterdecks, dreaming. And all of this, which is so much, is nothing next to what I want. — Fernando Pessoa, Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems . (Grove Press; First Printing edition April 1, 1999)

I'm nothing. I'll always be nothing. I can't want to be something. But I have in me all the dreams of the world.

For me this sun, these meadows and these flowers are enough. But if they weren't enough, What I would want is a sun more sun than the sun, Meadows more meadows than these meadows, Flowers more flowers than these flowers— Everything more ideal than what it is, in the same way and same manner! That thing over there more there than it is!

el afán de alcanzar algo es menor que lo que logramos alcanzar.

To be a retired major seems to me ideal. Too bad it's not possible to have eternally been nothing but a retired major.

Algunos simpatizantes me han dicho que de mí se podía haber hecho un buen político. Es posible, pero como se puede hacer un orinal con porcelana de Limoges: desperdiciando un material superior.

Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint...

Ci si rifugia nella mediocrità quando non si spera più nelle cose belle che si sono sognate!

From the moment I was a teenager, I wanted to be a father, wanted to be a family man.

My whole life I've wanted to be famous.

I don't want girls to aspire to being famous for the sake of being famous.

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

I always felt I was going to be famous.

Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day.

I just want to be rich and famous.

I remember famous people coming in to speak to me when I was in school and being inspired by them.

If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.

I am a fan of Prabhudeva and wanted to work with him.

My fan base is in Malayalam cinema, and that's where I want it to be.

'Entrepreneur' is a long, fancy French word, but it didn't seem like something you aspire to. It seemed normal, because whatever your parents do seems normal.

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

I've never been the type of guy that's ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

I was growing up around Leeds and I idolised Leeds. I went to Huddersfield and thought it was a good chance but I got there and felt like I didn't really fancy it.