Quotes About Aspiration

For me, I always want success.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse.

This is America. Success is not guaranteed.

My father used to say to me, 'The only limit to your success is your own imagination.' I actually believed that - like, I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I might not be an Olympic figure skater.

Work on your talent and success is bound to follow.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

It would be nice to garner new fans and make it a success - and success is relevant, we already know all that.

It really helps to know what success is before you get there, and if you know, then you can head right for it. For some people, it's the most money. For some, it's the most power. For some, it's the most girlfriends. Everybody's got a measure. For me, I guess it's having the respect and admiration of your peers.

Success is for creeps.

In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.

There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

I've had a lot of successes as a songwriter, and I really have nothing to prove in that arena, so I'm just excited about the next challenge of pursuing this artist thing.

I would encourage anyone to keep a pad of post-it notes by their bed and write down small, achievable goals and celebrate those successes and that will give you confidence to create bigger ones and achieve them.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.

I'm a good-hearted person and my biggest goal is to be successful. That's really the biggest part about me.

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

Dad's fear, especially when I was 18, was that, in the music industry in the U.K., there wasn't really anybody I would aspire to who was of black origin and who was successful. It was mainly black American musicians in the charts and, at that age, I think you look for someone you can identify with, and there wasn't really anyone.

There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.

I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.

All I was looking for is to be successful. I had the opportunity with Australia, with what it provided for me economically.

A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet.