Aspirational Living Quotes

Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.

Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

Back in the olden days when we were rubbing sticks together, everybody wanted to have a comic strip, to live in Westport Connecticut, to have a Jaguar and to have a wife and two and a half kids and to have a girl in town in their studio in Manhattan that they'd romance, and then they'd have people ghost their strip. It was like this big dream.

Acting is wonderful, but it's not pulling in the type of money that I want. It's not bringing in the type of money that I am used to or the type of money that is going to supply my lifestyle. I'm a leisure girl; I like to be over in Italy or in Europe, you know shopping or vacationing, you know.

I'm very ambitious. I always want more after I get something I've dreamed about, so every day, I have a new target and a new path to follow. That's pretty much my law in life.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

Design the life you want to live.

By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.

Each minute of life should be a divine quest.

It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.

I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

Ironically, if only because over the years I've known so many - from college deans to studio executives to European expats - who come to Los Angeles aspiring to nothing other than living in Topanga, I wound up there by accident.

I love that people have bucket lists. I've had one ever since I was young and watched 'Wild On' at night in my bedroom.

It's like anything in life, visualizing the old man you're going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that - the life you want to lead - eventually you'll probably get there.

The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary.

You're never too old to chase your dream.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

With my middle-class metabolism, the suburbs were where I always wanted to be.