Aspirations Quotes · Page 4

“I was a twenty-one-year-old virgin with literary aspirations.”

— Stephen King

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

— Peter McWilliams

Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere.

— Kimora Lee Simmons

“I think we're all aiming to be something better than what everyone thinks we were born to be”

— Chris Kurtz

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

— Vannevar Bush

To make a difference, you have to have large aspirations.

— Roshni Nadar

“when you shoot for the stars, you can't ever look back.”

— Brittany Perloff

Part of keeping work and life in balance is surrounding yourself with people that have similar aspirations.

— Damon Dash

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

— Pete Wentz

When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum…

— Taylor Hawkins

I've always had aspirations to play other characters, but over the years I've always felt so happy and so challenged at 'Emmerdale.'

— Kelvin Fletcher

We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic…

— Eskinder Nega

I'm the first person in my family to go to college, and I'm an immigrant. My aspirations coming out of college weren't…

— Geisha Williams

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning…

— Laura Hillenbrand

Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing…

— Steve Burns

Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball…

— Brian McKnight

For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I don't have a life of my own. I've put myself and my life at the service of the people. If necessity…

— Anonymous

Throughout my life, I have held the strongest belief that if you write down what you want to accomplish in your life:…

— Scott Cohen

You want everything for your kids that you didn't have, but that that very desire can pollute and corrupt the good, basic…

— Todd Haynes

At times many of us let that enemy of achievement--even the culprit 'self-defeat'--dwarf our aspirations, smother our dreams, cloud our vision, and…

— Thomas S. Monson

I want to continue to be challenged and feel a sense of fulfilment, like I have over the years at 'Emmerdale.' I've…

— Kelvin Fletcher

It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we…

— Dalai Lama

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such…

— E. F. Benson

“Learn how to use your time to move forward with your aspirations and shape your destiny.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

“Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.

— Janet Evanovich

I've got no aspirations to become an A-list celebrity.

— Carl Froch

“To set aspirations properly, it is important to understand who you are winning with and against.”

— Anonymous

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.”

— Richie Norton

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

— Anonymous

“You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.

— C. K. Prahalad

We must ensure that every single child can go as far as their ability and their aspirations will take them.

— Angela Rayner

I have my own goals and dreams and I have my own aspirations of what I want to do.

— Tom Izzo

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

— Buzz Aldrin

“Não aspiro a nada. Dói-me a vida. Estou mal onde estou e já mal onde penso em poder estar.”

— Fernando Pessoa

If you've got aspirations to be tested to the absolute maximum you want to be in the starting line-up.

— James Haskell