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Desire-Aspire-Perspire-Inspire but, don't Expire! -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Aspire not to have more, but to be more. -- Oscar Romero
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. -- Baltasar Gracian
Don't worry about being goodâ?¦. Aspire to be authentic. -- Yann Martel
Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best. -- Robert Browning
Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity. -- Brian Tracy
Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid. -- Joe Rogan
Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying. -- Nannie Helen Burroughs
Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person. -- Jake M. Johnson
Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned. -- William Arthur Ward
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
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. -- Sivananda
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards. -- Ted Koppel
Ask and it shall be given you; Seek and ye shall find; Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh, receiveth; And he that seeketh, Findeth; and to him that knocketh It shall be opened. Aspire not to have more, but to be more. -- Oscar Romero
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. -- Jodie Foster
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up. -- Samuel Smiles
I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me. -- Fred Perry
There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes. -- Sean Brady
I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way. -- Lewis Hamilton
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to. -- Willem Dafoe
A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire. -- Malorie Blackman
If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake. -- Vladimir Putin
For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit. -- Joel Kinnaman
A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else. -- Sri Chinmoy
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
Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions. -- Ibrahim Babangida
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
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. -- Saul Williams
As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future. -- Indra Nooyi
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
Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind. -- Rafe Spall
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. -- Marco Rubio
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it. -- Alan Dershowitz
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
Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything. -- CeeLo Green
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
I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone. -- Adrienne Bailon
I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world. -- Lady Gaga
I aspire to be useful. -- Anthony Foxx
I aspire only to silence. -- Felix Feneon
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength. -- Laurence Olivier
Music: what so many sentences aspire to be. -- Mary Oliver
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire -- August Bournonville
Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway. -- Joely Richardson
What man has done, man can aspire to do. -- Jerry Pournelle
I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. -- Pierre Corneille
Love is what we aspire to most in our lives. -- Orlando Bloom
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. -- James Allen
I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone. -- Brooke Burke
I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition. -- Sade Adu
Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire. -- George Foreman
Always aspire to become the next you, not someone else -- Prabal Gurung
You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones. -- Saint Augustine
We aspire to make artisanal tortillas on an industrial scale. -- Steve Ells
Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference. -- Denzel Washington
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. -- J. K. Rowling
Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals. -- Michael Skolnik
Paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire. -- Leah Price
I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified. -- Christina Ricci
Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked. -- George R. R. Martin
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration. -- Chris Oyakhilome
I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to. -- Daniel Radcliffe
We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that. -- Thomas Friedman
The Raptors have to aspire to be the Heat and the Lakers. -- Tim Leiweke
We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart. -- Max Stirner
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. -- Viktor E. Frankl
India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Bill Moyers is everything I never aspire to be: Calm, Thoughtful, and Informative. -- Stephen Colbert
All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable. -- Susan Sontag
I always aspire to just be really nice to people. To be kind. -- Taylor Swift
What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. -- John Lithgow
I didn't aspire to write and never considered it as a career option. -- Vantile Whitfield
Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire -- Ambrose Bierce
I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to. -- Trevor McDonald
I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day. -- Drew Barrymore
Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be. -- Henry David Thoreau
We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths. -- Jayme K.
Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy. -- Robert Pinsky
People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought. -- Veronica Roth
You can only aspire to what you see. That's why role modeling is important -- Regina Agyare
So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. -- Dale Carnegie
Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him? -- Wale
God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it. -- Orville Dewey
Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet. -- Mary Ruefle
I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature. -- Mark Helprin
I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man. -- Carl Jung
To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another; the artist never emerges from himself. -- Charles Baudelaire
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach. -- Samuel Johnson
I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself. -- Lauren Conrad
Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire. -- Jean Ingelow
A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for. -- Mark Shuttleworth
I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit. -- Claire Danes
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. -- Robert Breault
It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become. -- Rolf Dobelli
My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great. -- Adriane Lenox
Women in the 1950s were so much sexier. That's what I aspire to look like. -- Kelly Brook
So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all. -- Billy Porter
Acting aggressively will allow our youth to aspire for better-paid jobs and find alternatives to criminality. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust. -- Philip Sidney
The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes. -- David Tennant
I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer. -- Mark Pincus
Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow. -- James M. Kouzes
Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives. -- Philip Kitcher
I am not a yogi yet, but I aspire to have more balance in my life. -- Baratunde Thurston
The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love. -- Jessica Zafra
It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both. -- Jeremy Grantham
Approach each new day as a new opportunity to be the person you aspire to be. -- Bill Courtney
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. -- Elie Wiesel
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible. -- Pindar
New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged. -- Astra Taylor
Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX. -- Mal Fletcher
I don't mind being called a hairy, humourless lesbian because that is what I aspire to be. -- Bridget Christie
The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire. -- Peter McWilliams
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability. -- Vernor Vinge
I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance. -- Kevin Bacon

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