Aspiration Quotes

#1. What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Anna Jameson

#2. The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

Marilyn Manson

#3. Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dudley Warner

#4. Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

Richard Griffiths

#5. Guilt is motherfucker,... it takes everything motivation, aspiration and soul. (Kill Game 2015)

Deyth Banger

#6. Company's vision must be driven by the aspirations of its customers.

Konosuke Matsushita

#7. If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Rabindranath Tagore

#9. Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

#10. I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you.

K.d. Lang

#11. There is new hope among people that this dispensation can fulfill their aspirations.

Narendra Modi

#12. But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.

Tim Scott

#13. The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.

Helene Deutsch

#14. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, "Thou art my refuge.

George MacDonald

#15. We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination.

Hassan Al-Banna

#16. My aspiration to become a jurist had been laid to rest in the Graveyard of Failed Hopes, an all-female establishment. The sorrow of it had faded, but regret remained, and I'd taken to wondering if the Fates might be kinder to a different girl.

Sue Monk Kidd

#17. It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.

Carolina Herrera

#18. While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#19. To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Joseph Conrad

#20. I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

Ernest Hemingway,

#21. One of the most human things that you can do is reach out for the stars knowing that you might not ever touch them; we are all perfectly imperfect, but to live knowing so is to be a fulfilled human being.

Oli Anderson

#22. Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.

Herbert Marcuse

#23. What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

Nong Duc Manh

#24. There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart considering it's light weight. If you do, it will damage the axle of the cart.

Thiruvalluvar

#25. A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.

Alan Light

#26. Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

Bryant McGill

#27. You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.

Idries Shah

#28. Sad that our finest aspiration
Our freshest dreams and meditations,
In swift succession should decay,
Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

Alexander Pushkin

#29. We need to stop and ask, "Can I realize my deepest aspiration if I pursue this path?" "What is really preventing me from taking the path I most deeply desire?" DEVELOPING

Thich Nhat Hanh

#30. Our aspirations are our responsibilities.

Robert Browning

#31. As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

Tony Kushner

#32. Yet, when M. Paul sneered at me, I wanted to possess them more fully; his injustice stirred in me ambitious wishes - it imparted a strong stimulus - it gave wings to aspiration.

Charlotte Bronte

#33. Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.

Robert W. Service

#34. Squeezing it in my palm, I prayed, Please, God, let this seed you planted in me bear fruit.

Sue Monk Kidd

#35. All I can do now is carry on with my life.

Amanda Laneley

#36. When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

Mike Greenberg

#37. The aspiration of all writers should be to avoid leaving fissures in their work, to make sure that everything is properly secured so readers won't find a single toehold for their suspicions.

Marcos Giralt Torrente

#38. I've always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely.

Grace Kelly

#39. If you will but aspire
You will attain to all that you desire.
Before an atom of such need the Sun
Seems dim and mirky by comparison.
It is life's strength, the wings by which we fly
Beyond the further reaches of the sky.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#40. A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Marcus Aurelius

#41. Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations

Bryant McGill

#42. The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.

Henry David Thoreau

#43. Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world," I said, "but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be - it isn't a mirror, it's an aspiration.

Jasper Fforde

#44. I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.

Rosie O'Donnell

#45. You cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

Sonia Sotomayor

#46. I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!

Daniel Radcliffe

#47. A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#48. I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#49. To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#50. When it comes to believing in yourself, put your eye on the mark and don't blink. If you have a goal, a dream, or an aspiration ... believe in yourself while you are on the way to your destination, and you will have already arrived.

Sherry Argov

#51. New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.

H.L. Mencken

#52. When we live daily with the aspiration to do everything we do with love, our days will never be lacking.

Trish Blackwell

#53. Rather, genuine compassion is based on the rationale that all human beings have an innate desire to be happy and overcome suffering, just like myself. And, just like myself, they have the natural right to fulfill this fundamental aspiration.

Dalai Lama XIV

#54. My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspiration.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#55. An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#56. I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.

Neil Diamond

#57. Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.

Isaac Hecker

#58. Wherever you go, go with inspiration and aspiration.
Whatever you do, do with love and concern.
Whomever you see, see with purity's beauty
And responsibility's glory.

Sri Chinmoy

#59. In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

Emma Forrest

#60. Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.

Mahatma Gandhi

#61. Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

Karen Armstrong

#62. New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up

E.B. White

#63. Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force.

Serzh Sargsyan

#64. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

C.S. Lewis

#65. There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding ... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect.

Liam Fox

#66. We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#67. Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family

Ban Ki-moon

#68. Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#69. True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement.

Nur Sakinah Thomas

#70. Core passions and aspirations should be consistent and in sync.

Lorii Myers

#71. Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.

Virginia Postrel

#72. All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris.

Peter Ackroyd

#73. Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.

Charles Emmerson

#74. Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

Jaggi Vasudev

#75. Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry Ward Beecher

#76. The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

Albert Camus

#77. Aspiration begets inspiration".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#78. What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

Rose Kennedy

#79. I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

Duncan Jones

#80. I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.

Freddie Mercury

#81. Aspirations without preparations will simply give you life full of frustrations. Develop yourself today!

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#82. Inspiration follows aspiration.

Rabindranath Tagore

#83. I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit.

S.A. Tawks

#84. When will you desist playing tour guide?" he asked. "I should think never. It is the greatest aspiration of my life to give historic tours," Cinderella lied

K.M. Shea

#85. Clasped in my embrace, I held the source of every worthy aspiration I ever had; the centre of myself, the circle of my life, my own ... my love of whom was founded on a rock!

Charles Dickens

#86. We must each prepare ourselves for every good work that might come to us and then accept the principle that revelation, not aspiration, is the basis for our respective callings.

Monte J. Brough

#87. Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

William Ellery Channing

#88. I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.

Jack Reed

#89. I think I'm a full-time artist, a full-time urban planner, and a full-time preacher with an aspiration of no longer needing any of those titles. Rather, I'm trying to do what for some seems a very messy work or a complicated work.

Theaster Gates

#90. The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

Eric Hoffer

#91. A Woman who let out a Sigh Outside a Mansion, should Never ask her Husband Why He Works Late

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#92. I am moved by the desire to see and to be seen, to grow and to unveil the mysteries of life and, at the same time, by the aspiration that life will continue to reveal new mysteries and new possibilities.

Rod Stryker

#93. We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

Franz Werfel

#94. You have to create tension between reality and aspiration

Sumantra Ghoshal

#95. The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

Steven Pinker

#96. I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors.
There is so much aspiration in them,
so much audacious hope and trembling fear,
so much of the heart's history, that all errors
and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of
in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#97. Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.

Simon Winchester

#98. The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.

George Osborne

#99. Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of sex.

Cynthia Ozick

#100. Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on.

John L'Heureux