Quotes About Aspiration

I'm living the life of liberty, happiness and pursuit.

I use the word 'passion' a lot when I talk to young people. In every pursuit I've been on, I've had a lot of passion behind it. It continues to motivate me every day on what I like to do and where I'm going.

If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity so that everybody is successful or can be successful in the pursuit of their dreams - not the dreams of someone from government, but their own dreams.

I think that I must be the only person who left California and headed to Dublin in pursuit of a career in film. The arrow is pointing in the other direction in most people's minds.

I had a pursuit different from others because they all came from downtown areas with money, but I didn't have any. All I wanted is to change my destiny with my own efforts.

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

I'm always looking forward, and I try to continue to push myself and to do the best that I can.

You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.

That way I look at it, I want to push myself to create things people could've never imagined. It's a good motto to have in the back of your head, I think.

You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

I like to dress up and look nice. I'm not quite at the stage yet financially to do that too often, but it's nice to push the boat out a little bit for award ceremonies and stuff.

Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

I easily could've gone to a place like Florida Atlantic, but my dad pushed me to realize that my dream was to play somewhere big. He was right.

My anger pushed me. I hated poverty so much that I wanted to become rich.

Its shocking to come from doing freestyles to having the No. 4 album in the country. It pushes me to do better and better so I can get to No. 1.

Every artist has the song where they say, 'I wish I could have written a song as good as this,' but they don't feel like they've done it yet. It pushes you to evolve.

Being a lifeguard, not having much money - that is the thing that pushes me the most. I don't want to be in that situation again.

You have to be grateful for what you have, but you're always pushing further.

I am going to keep pushing myself and I would love to get an individual gold medal. That would be amazing.

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.

I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to keep pushing it.