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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. -- Margaret Fuller
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. -- Charles Baudelaire
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
Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many. -- James Russell Lowell
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics. -- Manuel Puig
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. -- Israel Zangwill
The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist. -- Vannevar Bush
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. -- Adam Smith
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. -- Jodie Foster
Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. -- Evan Esar
[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed. -- James Scott
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. -- Jack Nicklaus
God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations. -- Alexandre Vinet
You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept. -- Thomas Friedman
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. -- Chauncey Wright
Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run. -- Lidia Yuknavitch
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. -- James Lovelock
Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment. -- Maria Jane McIntosh
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. -- Henry David Thoreau
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. -- Khalil Gibran
Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children. -- Mark Sanford
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. -- Sidney Hook
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. -- Gertrude Stein
I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor. -- Sonia Sotomayor
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
It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough. -- Idries Shah
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. -- Louisa May Alcott
Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome. -- S. R. Nathan
Inspiration follows aspiration. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. -- William Ellery Channing
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration. -- John Morley
The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. -- Theodor Adorno
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. -- James Allen
Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation. -- Meher Baba
It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered. -- Michael Harrington
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? -- Rose Kennedy
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. -- Kurt Lewin
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
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
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation. -- Li Peng
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration. -- Paulo Freire
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. -- Allan Bloom
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
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. -- Flora Lewis
I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor. -- Nancy Pelosi
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
My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always. -- Rafael Nadal
India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. -- Sri Aurobindo
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
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. -- James Lane Allen
My biggest aspiration is to inspire people to do good. I believe that our wish for a harmonious world begins and ends with doing good. To inspire and empower people to focus on goodness, I wrote a new book called 'Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World through Doing Good.' -- Shari Arison
You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better. -- Jason Calacanis
Badass is a juvenile aspiration. -- Gabrielle Hamilton
Dance is about never-ending aspiration. -- Judith Jamison
Repentance is another name for aspiration. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The more aspiration is partial realization. -- Anna Cora Mowatt
Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. -- Stephen Samuel Wise
All language is an aspiration to music. -- Steve Almond
The aspiration to attain goals overcomes death -- Sunday Adelaja
Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration. -- Charles Emmerson
Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration! -- Denise Austin
Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration. -- George MacDonald
The only thing limiting your aspiration is your imagination. -- Stephen Richards
You have to create tension between reality and aspiration -- Sumantra Ghoshal
I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration. -- Waris Ahluwalia
Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action. -- Christine Pelosi
In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration. -- John F. Kennedy
I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man. -- DeForest Kelley
The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order . -- Albert Camus
Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration. -- Johnny Rich
That sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important -- Hazel Blears
The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth. -- Marilyn Manson
The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations. -- Eric Hoffer
You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world. -- Jack Johnson
There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore. -- Tom Courtenay
Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation. -- Helen and Scott Nearing
Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself. -- Kevin Powers
My highest aspiration in life is to serve as the Limerick Laureate of Nantucket. -- Alan C. Baird
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation. -- Tran Duc Luong
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit. -- Mason Cooley
The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation -- Che Guevara
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes. -- Tom Peters
Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence. -- Velupillai Prabhakaran
The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation. -- Tran Duc Luong
My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible. -- Mario Monti
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull. -- John Galsworthy
All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it. -- David Emerald Womeldorff
I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual. -- Ronald Reagan
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine. -- Walter Kirn
The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity. -- Pablo Antonio Cuadra
Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act. -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity. -- Helene Deutsch
Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith. -- Stephen Samuel Wise
The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations. -- Benjamin Todd Jealous
For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful. -- Tom Hollander
When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right? -- Susie Orbach
The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara. -- Patanjali
Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration. -- Wallace D. Wattles
It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life. -- Carolina Herrera
Hung verdict would have meant anger against previous govt; Clear verdict to BJP shows people voted for hope and aspiration. -- Narendra Modi
Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety. -- Benjamin Bratt
I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration. -- Duncan Jones
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe. -- Emma Goldman
Dreaming is one of humanity's greatest gifts - it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward. -- Richard Branson
The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure. -- Sri Chinmoy
Sad that our finest aspiration Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away. -- Alexander Pushkin
Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself. -- Jaggi Vasudev
I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration. -- George Saunders
I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration. -- Jack Reed
Man-made religions find fault with one another, whereas God-made religion is eternally a oneness-song - God-manifestation through human aspiration on earth. -- Sri Chinmoy
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting. -- Sri Aurobindo
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. -- Joseph Conrad
My view is the core engine supporting India's growth aspiration will be the financial sector, which will have to get more efficient. -- Uday Kotak
I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it. -- Fred Melamed

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