Quotes of: Aspiring Keyword

Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

Atlas Shrugged

What you've done isn't the only thing that defines who you are. Words are just as powerful as action. They can aspire action in others, can't they?

Ignite

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

Just Kids

Man needed to dream. Yes, he needed to believe in illusions, to aspire to something more than the miserable, hostile life that suffocated him.

The Map of the Sky

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

My Beloved World

When aspirations are perceived to be achievable, ambition and drive can erase excuses.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

People aspire, learn, and grow when they are ready to commit to the process.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

The Nigger of the Narcissus

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.

The Passion According to G.H.

Be like a sparrow aspiring to be an ostrich, and I’ll be like a cowboy with no horse looking for a speedy land runner to ride.

This Book Has No Title

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.

Voice of Reason

We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.

Voice of Reason

In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.

Who I Am

Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.

Brian McKnight

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

Matthew Modine

I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a fleeting way, I got all those things.

Mark O'Donnell

Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations in order to shape our communal remembering.

Neil MacGregor

There needs to be people with courageous hearts willing to talk real, willing to live wild and willing to conquer depths in which most are afraid of- their the people we aspire to be.

Nikki Rowe

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

Paul Nurse

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

Patti Smith