Top 100 Quotes About Aspire
#1. disregard the opinions of those you don't aspire to be, that's the first step to finding your own two feet.
Nikki Rowe
#2. I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing in the sonnets, and it's very real because it's so deeply personal. I try to aspire to that in what I do.
Rufus Wainwright
#3. I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.
Faith Ringgold
#4. My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great.
Adriane Lenox
#5. When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.
Jeremy Clarkson
#6. I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.
Nicholas Sparks
#7. As I aspire, I inspire ... there's room for all of us!
J. Hale Turner
#8. Don't just create; create to change; change to improve; improve to increase. Aspire to inspire.
Israelmore Ayivor
#9. It looked like I was the dead itself, and that isn't something someone should aspire to look like.
Kelley Armstrong
#10. Instead, as a consequence of racial gerrymandering, "elections nationwide have become more or less permanently structured to discourage politically adventuresome African American candidates who aspire to win political office in majority-white settings.
Jason L. Riley
#11. Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.
William Arthur Ward
#12. Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.
Robert Pinsky
#13. Weird here is something we aspire to, something we perfect, get degrees in, get awards for.
Tom Spanbauer
#14. I go now to the wilderness to be a part of it; to accept my place in the world and its place in me; to grow into reality as a tree grows into the rain, to conform to the Earth as a stream conforms to the stones of its bed. To live. To aspire. To be.
William Ashworth
#15. I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.
Albert Einstein
#16. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, and goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.
Jason Evert
#17. No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
Og Mandino
#18. Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.
John Mackey
#19. Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.
Douglas Conant
#20. An eternally changing world offers no future for which you must aim. With no future to aspire to, you are free to live fully in the here and now.
R.L. Prendergast
#21. Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.
Billy Porter
#22. We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths.
Jayme K.
#23. Ayn Rand brings the best and the worst animal instinct out in humans. Well, excuse me, I aspire to be further evolved ethically than that. I really believe that Ayn Rand is the Marilyn Monroe of philosophy--all seduction, little substance.
John Stuart
#24. In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
#25. That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that's respectable for adults to read.
Adrian Tomine
#26. I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.
Dorothy Stang
#27. If we want kids with 'aspiration', we need to give them something to aspire to.
Owen Jones
#28. I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.
Stephen Root
#29. To imagine...to dream...to aspire...to desire. The four nectars of life. Drink deep and savor the sweetness."
David Robbins
David Robbins
#30. Honestly, I don't aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting ... Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.
Dave Bautista
#31. Super-heroes were created to represent the best in all of us. We should aspire to match their nobility, not their ability to shoot big chrome guns.
Mark Waid
#32. I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
Vanessa Lengies
#33. I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.
Connie Nielsen
#34. To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.
Edwin A. Abbott
#35. Bill Moyers is everything I never aspire to be: Calm, Thoughtful, and Informative.
Stephen Colbert
#36. Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
#37. Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.
Sarah Dessen
#38. If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
George Santayana
#39. Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#40. Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.
Charles Lamb
#41. You can only aspire to what you see. That's why role modeling is important
Regina Agyare
#43. I don't mind being called a hairy, humourless lesbian because that is what I aspire to be.
Bridget Christie
#44. We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication.
Emil Cioran
#45. That's such an incredibly organic bias, the idea that your squishy physical existence is some sort of pinnacle that all programs aspire to.
Becky Chambers
#46. We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership,
Sheryl Sandberg
#47. I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.
David Duchovny
#48. He was one of the few men who didn't aspire to be alpha as long as he was in on the hunt.
B.V. Lawson
#49. Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.
Emile M. Cioran
#50. We aspire to what we think we can achieve, and what we think we can achieve is influenced by what we see others achieving.
Daniel Isenberg
#51. Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.
Fidel Castro
#53. Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire ... and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.
Charles Dickens
#54. You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
Larry Fitzgerald
#55. If you don't dance, for heaven's sake, you cannot aspire.
You do not lift up from this earth.
Mimi Weddell
#56. We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves.
John Calvin
#57. Don't aspire to be the next somebody else. Be proud and embrace being the first and only you!
Tammy Ferebee
#58. For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
#59. Approach each new day as a new opportunity to be the person you aspire to be.
Bill Courtney
#60. Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#61. The desires you aspire to need strong chains of intent.
Steven Redhead
#62. I think most people are decent people. I don't know if they could stand the pressure he's under, but most people aspire to be decent people.
Brendan Gleeson
#63. Those who seek to aspire are those who achieve Greatness.
Saim .A. Cheeda
#64. There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
Samuel Gompers
#65. Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
Sophia Loren
#66. Everybody, I think, who hopes to become a judge would aspire to be able to write as well as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. None are going to be able to attain that.
Merrick Garland
#67. I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.
Trevor McDonald
#68. I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.
Shepard Fairey
#69. you must thoroughly analyze a company, and the soundness of its underlying businesses, before you buy its stock; you must deliberately protect yourself against serious losses; you must aspire to "adequate," not extraordinary, performance.
Benjamin Graham
#70. We all aspire to be ourselves, an original character in a litany of fiction so vast that we know we cannot.
Jasper Fforde
#71. The soul mate is what we aspire to and like to understand about us, is what we deem to be perfection, purity and endless regarding our own being.
Sorin Cerin
#72. I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.
Drew Barrymore
#74. I will always aspire to contain my shit as best I can, but I am no longer interested in hiding my dependencies in an effort to appear superior to those who are more visibly undone or aching.
Maggie Nelson
#75. Dare to think the unimaginable, imagine the unthinkable, dream of that which will never happen, yet continue to aspire and to test the limits of your very being and those around you.
Mark W. Boyer
#77. I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.
Jeb Bush
#78. Aspire higher to attain excellence in whatever you do. But be careful when you reach the peak, where the only way is the way downwards. Maintain your standard!
Israelmore Ayivor
#80. You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.
Stephen Bayley
#81. Life has taught me that men fear evil more than they aspire to do good.
Karin Cox
#82. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
Samuel Johnson
#83. I never considered myself an artist. I aspire to be an artist, but I never thought I had the depth or substance or gift to be an artist. I do think I have some talent, but it doesn't go as far as being an artist.
Woody Allen
#84. I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.
Howard Schultz
#85. The perfect society to which we aspire in theory may become a powerful enemy of the good society we can become in fact.
Mark Sagoff
#86. My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.
Shaquille O'Neal
#87. When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.
George MacDonald
#88. God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.
Orville Dewey
#89. I always felt safe and protected. My dad is 6'6 and 280 pounds, so I basically felt protected, and I aspire to have my kids feel the same way.
Rib Hillis
#90. Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.
Leland Ryken
#91. We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
Samuel L. Jackson
#93. What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
Anna Jameson
#94. It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.
Theodor Herzl
#95. Rue gave a little mental sigh. No one would ever describe her as deadly attractive. She brightened a bit. Perhaps she could aspire to just deadly?
Gail Carriger
#96. Always aspire to mediocrity first. If you can do that, you'll find you're always moving up in life.
Magen Cubed
#97. Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid.
Joe Rogan
#98. I don't believe that being an inspiring leader is a goal that you can aspire to. It is a by-product.
Srikumar Rao
#99. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.
James Baldwin
#100. Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.
Jim Hunt
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