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I aspire to be useful. -- Anthony Foxx
Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway. -- Joely Richardson
I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. -- Pierre Corneille
Love is what we aspire to most in our lives. -- Orlando Bloom
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
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth. -- Nicolas Chamfort
My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great. -- Adriane Lenox
Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all. -- Billy Porter
I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way. -- Lewis Hamilton
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
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength. -- Laurence Olivier
Music: what so many sentences aspire to be. -- Mary Oliver
What man has done, man can aspire to do. -- Jerry Pournelle
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
Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked. -- George R. R. Martin
Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals. -- Michael Skolnik
I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified. -- Christina Ricci
Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference. -- Denzel Washington
Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration. -- Chris Oyakhilome
We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that. -- Thomas Friedman
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to. -- Daniel Radcliffe
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
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. -- Jodie Foster
I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day. -- Drew Barrymore
What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. -- John Lithgow
I always aspire to just be really nice to people. To be kind. -- Taylor Swift
All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable. -- Susan Sontag
I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to. -- Trevor McDonald
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
I didn't aspire to write and never considered it as a career option. -- Vantile Whitfield
So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. -- Dale Carnegie
People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought. -- Veronica Roth
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.
Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him? -- Wale
You can only aspire to what you see. That's why role modeling is important -- Regina Agyare
Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy. -- Robert Pinsky
Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet. -- Mary Ruefle
I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me. -- Fred Perry
God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it. -- Orville Dewey
I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man. -- Carl Jung
It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become. -- Rolf Dobelli
Women in the 1950s were so much sexier. That's what I aspire to look like. -- Kelly Brook
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
I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself. -- Lauren Conrad
To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another; the artist never emerges from himself. -- Charles Baudelaire
A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for. -- Mark Shuttleworth
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach. -- Samuel Johnson
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
So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less. -- Francis Ford Coppola
I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer. -- Mark Pincus
I am not a yogi yet, but I aspire to have more balance in my life. -- Baratunde Thurston
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible. -- Pindar
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
Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives. -- Philip Kitcher
Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow. -- James M. Kouzes
Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX. -- Mal Fletcher
New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged. -- Astra Taylor
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability. -- Vernor Vinge
There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes. -- Sean Brady
I don't mind being called a hairy, humourless lesbian because that is what I aspire to be. -- Bridget Christie
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. -- Charles Lamb
To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it. -- John Avery
I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp. -- Sonny Perdue
Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society. -- William E. Simon
Those that aspire to raise their head above the crowd are most likely to have it shot off. -- Leif Herrgesell
The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. -- Susan Sontag
What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror. -- Charles Baudelaire
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. -- George Santayana
For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them. -- Said Sayrafiezadeh
What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of. -- Don Williams
[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either. -- Randy Sandke
Just tell me one boy, just one who at seven didn't aspire to be a hero or a fireman. -- Miguel Delibes
Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. -- Seneca the Younger
All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie. -- Nicolas Cage
As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to. -- Najib Razak
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to. -- Willem Dafoe
I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party. -- Jeb Bush
Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. -- Mitch Albom
I will say what I aspire to is a consistency in making films, to direct something every couple of years. -- Mike Birbiglia
Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
I don't believe that being an inspiring leader is a goal that you can aspire to. It is a by-product. -- Srikumar Rao
If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake. -- Vladimir Putin
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
I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division. -- Henrique Capriles Radonski
Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead. -- Peter York
"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again. -- Tina Fey
Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different. -- Abhishek Bachchan
People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way. -- Moby
When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognized for it. -- Neil Harbisson
I aspire to be like Paul Newman. He was a man's man, a lady's man, and the epitome of a philanthropist. -- Trevor Donovan
Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford. -- Walter Mosley
I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing. -- Matthew Rhys
We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there. -- Trip Hawkins
Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him. -- C. J. Mahaney
AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to. -- Bonnie Raitt
All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story. -- Laurie Garrett
That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country? -- Lee Iacocca
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief. -- Fidel Castro
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
Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops. -- Althea Gibson
Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder. -- N. T. Wright
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. -- Steve Martin
I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do. -- Whit Stillman
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
Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with. -- Sean Penn
Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions. -- Nelson Mandela

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