quotes about Aspiration
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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
-- Alex KapranosSource : Interview With Scott Frampton, www.esquire.com. October 31, 2005.
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God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.
-- Alexandre Vinet -
A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. Its exhausting. You get cold.
-- Ally Walker -
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Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
-- Althea GibsonSource : Althea Gibson, Richard Curtis (1968). “So Much to Live for”
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The more aspiration is partial realization.
-- Anna Cora Mowatt -
I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.
-- Anne Hathaway -
No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.
-- Archibald Alexander Hodge -
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If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.
-- C. K. PrahaladSource : "The Life’s Work of a Thought Leader" by Art Kleiner, www.strategy-business.com. August 9, 2010.
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It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation
-- Che Guevara -
Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.
-- Christine PelosiSource : "Earth Day Call to Service: Vote Green and Clean in 2012" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2012.
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Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.
-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -
I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.
-- DeForest Kelley -
Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.
-- Elliot Perlman -
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
-- Eminem -
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The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Turn all your thoughts and aspirations to heaven. Work hard to secure for yourself a place there for ever.
-- Father Damien -
Badass is a juvenile aspiration.
-- Gabrielle HamiltonSource : Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.195, Random House
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Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.
-- Gary Hamel -
I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.
-- George Saunders -
I’ve always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely.
-- Grace Kelly -
The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
-- Iain Duncan Smith -
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
-- James Allen -
Dance is about never-ending aspiration.
-- Judith JamisonSource : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
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Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.
-- Kevin Powers -
It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.
-- Kofi Annan -
Company's vision must be driven by the aspirations of its customers.
-- Konosuke Matsushita -
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I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me
-- Laura Hillenbrand -
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
-- Laurence Olivier -
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
-- Louisa May AlcottSource : Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.305, ReadHowYouWant.com
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
-- Manuel Puig -
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My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.
-- Mario Monti -
Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.
-- Michael DibdinSource : FaceBook post by Michael Dibdin from May 17, 2012
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The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.
-- Pablo Antonio Cuadra -
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Our aspirations are our responsibilities.
-- Robert Browning -
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What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams.
-- Sepp Blatter -
Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.
-- Stephen Samuel Wise -
Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing I ever thought anyone would ever let me do.
-- Steve Burns -
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You have to create tension between reality and aspiration
-- Sumantra Ghoshal -
The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.
-- Ted Baillieu -
There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.
-- Tom CourtenaySource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
-- Vannevar BushSource : VANNEVAR BUSH (1949). “MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY”
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I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -
I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.
-- Ayana Mathis -
The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!
-- Dale Jamieson -
I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?
-- Bradford CoxSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Leadership is all about raising the aspirations of people.
-- Narayan -
When I was younger, I didn't have any aspirations to be an actress.
-- Taissa FarmigaSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.
-- Wade Davis -
Moderate aspirations lead to a contended life. I don't have to buy the airplane and I can't drive the tank!!
-- Mahesh Babu -