Life Ambitions Quotes

I've always been the kid who's known what they wanted to do.

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.

It's a weird place to be in because my dreams in life have surpassed what I could have ever imagined. I just hope I can continue to write stand-up, but I would say my big dream is to build an amazing family. It's so boring and cheesy, but that's my focus.

Listen - by the time I'm 40, I'm either gonna be super famous or dead.

I can't imagine what I would be doing if I wasn't swimming. It is what I want to do now; it is what I want to do in the foreseeable future, and that is what I'm focusing on.

One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, '6,' and he said, '3.' I think it was his way of telling me that I needed to get out and really attack life.

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

I don't know what my daughter will become.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

I thought I'd be spending my life making brooms, mops, chairs and things. That's fine for some blind people, but I wanted something more out of life. Music seemed the best way.

I went through a phase after we won the World Cup of 'what am I going to do with my life.'

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

You have a certain number of dreams in your life you want to fulfill.

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

I don't map out my future to the minute details.

Too many times I see kids come up to me, especially at the high school age, and say, 'Man, it would be cool to play in the NFL just because of the money.' And I'm like, 'Oh my goodness, you are missing everything, because money is not going to make you happy.'

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

Everyone wants you to define your life until the end of your life.