Quotes About Aspiration

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

I've always had a very clear vision of what I wanted to do.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

I do envision myself having kids one day, and I always wanted a little girl.

Growing up, I've always wanted to be a rock star.

I always wanted to be a dentist! I thought I was going to be fixing teeth and making beautiful smiles.

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.

I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.

I never wanted to let go of the opportunity, and so I hit upon 'VIP 2'.

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to play some chords, so I was laying down 'Hound Dog' and things like that when I was 10 years old in 1955. That's the way I was. My ear was glued to the radio. I knew right then what I wanted to do.

When I was 15 and had the light bulb moment I wanted to be an actor, it was my sole focus and goal, and I went after it with determination.

I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the control or flair that was necessary to create something that didn't look childish.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands.

I knew that when I grew up, I wanted to have a business.

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.