Shelley Duvall Quotes

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be.

I aspire to be useful.

You can determine what your future holds based on how much time and energy you spend working on yourself now. Find out what it is you want, and go after it as if your life depends on it. Why? Because it does.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

I have so many goals.

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

I've always wanted better for myself; I just didn't know what route I was going to take.

I have an ocean of opportunities awaiting me and once I am back from Miss World, I want to explore whatever life has to offer.

If I was to sit there and think about anything, it would be, 'What can you look forward to, what can you put your time into, and what can help you grow up?'

There's just so much I want to do in life. Part of that is to use my story and use my experiences to give back to other people.

I'm constantly trying to figure out my life and what's next. I'm never satisfied with what I have.

My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.

We're too passive. We're feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone and be able to get the most of each one of us, which means restructuring the way we deal with time and the priorities we have in life, so being what we want to be I think should be something that we should keep in mind.

Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there."

Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life.

Ask yourself honestly, who do you wanna be and what are you willing to do to become that person?

I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?