Future Aspirations Quotes

Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.

I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

It was a dream to play the World Cup and I will play for sure in the future.

Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink

The idea of working in films came after I passed class ten. I was planning to set up a restaurant and manage a business.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

I don't know what my daughter will become.

I watched the Oscars, but there wasn't a side of me that was like "Oh, one day..." It was mostly "This is what I want to do, and how do I do it?" As soon as I decided that I was going to be an actor, for about five years after that, I just decided to not do much acting. It was like "Okay, this is what you're going to be later on."

I get this weird feeling that there's bigger things to do still, and I can't wait to figure it out.

I certainly feel as if I've been blessed professionally and personally, but I've still got moves I'd like to make.

Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

Besides acting, I have tons of plans but there is time for it.

The young and dynamic and idealistic people in the square do not have the chance to organise themselves politically, to be able to follow through their dreams in six months time, to play an effective role in the future.

I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, "Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.

When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?