Unachievable Aspirations Quotes

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

I kind of felt like I was never good enough. I always wanted more.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

Unlike most kids in Japan, I didn't have a dream. I wasn't ambitious.

I was naive. Before 'Larrikins,' I thought passion, hard work, and a skill set will mean that anything you want to do will get done. I don't think that anymore.

My problem is I'm not talented enough to do everything, but I want to do everything. I'm like, 'Oh God, I wish I could dance! Oh God, I wish I could rap!' I can't be a rapper, and I'm sure as hell not going to be able to dance for a living, but I want to do it all, you know?

I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.

I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

You don't want to dream too big in case it doesn't happen.

They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

I think sometimes we start out wanting to do things that maybe we're not cut out for.

I've always wanted a perfect life.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.

It sucks when you can't play the game you love.