Quotes About Aspiration

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.

Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it.

I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but you don't want to have the responsibilities of an adult. You still want to have the freedom.

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.

My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.

The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition.

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

I felt for a really long time, "When I grow up I want to be an actor." And now I'm like, "Oh, this is it now. This is my life."

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

I try to maintain a high level of coolness. Which means I've gotta look at lot of magazines. I've gotta look at a lot of ads to see what people want to wear.

If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.

Anything that you might want to be is around somewhere. You can become it. You just have to get into the state of mind that allows that to occur.

Leave me this freedom … to do something. To do a thing … a thing that does not destroy, but creates. Please, can I not be more than I am? Please. Do not find me.

None to witness. Dust of dreams, dust of all that we never achieved. Dust of what we might have been and what we cannot help but be.

The world was not infinite, and yet a population could aspire to become so; it could (and would) expand well beyond its own limits of sustainability, and would continue to do so until it collapsed.

Cutter rubbed at his face. He needed a shave. And a bath. And clean, new clothes. And a purpose in life.

Imperfect. We can never match the ideals set before us. That is the burden of mortality.

If dreams of flying are the last hope of freedom I will pray for wings with my last breath.

Steven Erikson

I want a chance to be Space Girl, too.