Quotes About Aspiration

Not long now: the blazing dream of my head is crawling out.

does there exist, is there a man on earth who seizes more joy than just a dream, a vision?

The follower aspires with all his strength to be what he admires. And then, remarkably enough, even though he lives amongst a 'Christian people,' he incurs the same peril as he did when it was dangerous to openly confess Christ. And because of the follower's life, it will become evident who the admirers are, for the admirers will become agitated with him. Even these words will disturb many - but then they must likewise belong to the admirers.

I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.

Take full responsibility for your life, move forward in the direction of your dreams

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to keep myself from slipping.

Young people don't have a fantasy life anymore, not the way we did. All they've got is Kojak and Dirty Harry. There's all these kids running around wanting to be killer cops.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you'll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

I don't want a simple life. I want an extraordinary continuous adventure. That's the problem. I just want more. I want it all & everything in-between.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

In all honesty, I have a few irons in the fire in the TV world, but mostly, I'm working on having the most amazing life I can possibly have, and hopefully my career will come along for the ride.

I knew early in life that I wanted a show business career.