aspirations quotes

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Some day I shall be President.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.