Quotes About Aspiration

From the moment Arsenal made an approach, everything was clear for me. I'm not going to lie, I thought it would happen later in my career. But joining such a club at 19, any player would like that.

My mind was always set on joining Manchester United. How can you not go to United?

I am not cut out for politics. I don't even dream of joining politics.

When I moved to Bengaluru to study law, I was looking forward to joining a theatre troupe.

Joining Madrid is the best thing that could happen to anyone.

I will admit when I was 16, 17 years old, the thought of playing for the Jays was at the top. There's something about joining a club and being embraced by a club and then building a relationship and commitment to a team.

Now when I first heard EPMD's first joint 'You Gots to Chill' and later 'So Whatcha Sayin'?' I said, 'I can do this!'

All I ever wanted to do was tell jokes for a living.

I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.

The Christian is the one whose imagination should soar beyond the stars.

He too had plans... he wasn't embarrassed by the idea of carefully thinking through what would be necessary to achieve them. You made a picture of the life you wanted to have, and then you worked back from there to the present.

Todo en el aire es pájaro.

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

Wanting to be a movie star....answering an ad at ten or eleven. You made your mother drive you to Hollywood.

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

It's not a question of money. After you reach a certain point, money becomes unimportant. What matters is success. The sensible thing would be for me to stop now. But I can't. I have to keep aiming higher and higher just for the thrill.

Sometimes your dreams come true.

As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal - something we are to become - some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Here, in the foyer of the League of Nations, Edith Campbell Berry stands.