Pursuit of Dreams Quotes

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

I didn't really have a plan B. My plan B was work harder and try to make it in the NFL, and that's what I want to do. I put everything I had into making it in this league, and that's why I'm here.

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

The whole time I've been an actor, from early in Houston, my goal has been to work - to keep doing it. I feel at my most satisfied as a human being when I'm working on a role.

I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.

My dream was to make it in life. I didn't know how it was going to be. My brother guided me toward a wrestling ring, and I gravitated to it very quickly. It seemed like deja vu for me, and I said, 'Wow, I think this might be it.'

I always dreamed of playing the NBA, but along the way, the road got a little cloudy.

I'm not in a mood to fight for things. I feel excited about my career, and I really feel like anything's possible and within my reach.

Thanks to my family and guru. They were quite confident that I could do it and think about music as a full-time career.

People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

I think a lot of people confuse what we do with fame or wanting fame... which is not necessarily true.

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

To the stars through thorns.

There's something very powerful about going after what you want seriously.

Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once. 'There is a bridge that links what I do with what I would like to do,' he thinks. Slowly, his dreams take over his everyday life, and then he realises that he is ready for the thing he always wanted. Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

When I do something I give everything, so it has to be something that I really want to go for.

If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.

There I was as a kid: a closeted homosexual who wants to be an actress. I had no choice! Wanting to act was something I was wired with when I was born. I never thought I would have success or celebrity, although I did want that. But what I wanted more than anything was to work.

When I began my life journey, we'd survive on Rs 500 a month as a family. As time passed and I started playing for the country, this Rs 500 multiplied manifold, but it was not the money that mattered: it was the fact that I was fulfilling my ambition of playing cricket on the highest platform, representing my country.

The beauty is that it's all a part of this wonderful dream I had in college. It's beautiful to see what it's turned into. It's the journey that I'm most proud of.

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.