Quotes About Aspiration

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.

Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.

If I could only live another century!

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.

There is no life higher than the grasstops

It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.

I was raised in farm and ranch communities, and my dad wanted me to be a cowboy like him, but I saw how he struggled in life and wanted more than that.

Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.

What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.

It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.

We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and if we screw up we can get in a world of trouble - we're very intense dreamers.

It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.