Aspire Quotes - Page 18

• You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Thinking, Needs, States

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Believe, Hard Work

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Nerves, Wit

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.9

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• Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Opportunity, Government, Law

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2016). “My Own Words”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, People, Important

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• You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

  Bruno Mars

  Mean, Artist, Men

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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• The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Law, Taste

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• There's certainly enough writers and directors and actors who secretly aspire to make movies and films that agree with the center-right perspective, and I would argue the majority perspective in America.

  Andrew Breitbart

  America, Perspective, Actors

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.

  Claire Danes

  Women, Lucky, Misfits

  Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. April 23, 2007.

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• Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Love Is, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

  Pierre Corneille

  Agreement, Doom, Agree

  "Polyeucte". Book by Pierre Corneille, act IV, scene II, 1642.

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• A comprehensive doctrine, either religious or secular, aspires to cover all of life. I mean, if it's a religious doctrine, it talks about our relation to God and the universe; it has an ordering of all the virtues, not only political virtues but moral virtues as well, including the virtues of private life, and the rest. Now we may feel philosophically that it doesn't really cover everything, but it aims to cover everything, and a secular doctrine does also.

  John Rawls

  Religious, Mean, Political

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• And thou my minde aspire to higher things;
  Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.

  Philip Sidney

  Knowledge, Rust, Rich

  Certain Sonnets no. 32, l. 1 (written 1577 - 1581)

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• I think that people are able to see that I am working hard, that I am striving openly, honestly and sincerely to achieve the results the results our country needs. I think that they are also able to see that not all goes well. Our people are smart and sharp-sighted. Yet, I believe that the main thing is to sincerely aspire to achieve the maximum, so that the country feels more secure and people live better. That's precisely how I am trying to go about my work.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Smart, Believe

  Source: www.rt.com

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• What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Vision, Genius

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• With housing it's something even more dramatic than that, because most people aspire to own their own home.If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year.That's not true of an Internet stock. But it's true of a home.

  Warren Buffett

  Home, Thinking, Years

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you overlook her most important qualities of having a strong testimony, living the principles of the gospel, loving home, wanting to be a mother in Zion, and supporting you in your priesthood responsibilities. Of course, she should be attractive to you.... And one good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mother, Strong, Responsibility

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, People

  "Stripper culture riles up Christina Ricci" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. April 25, 2008.

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• America Ferrera is definitely one of my biggest role models, and she has been for the last three years. Like a big sister, someone I can look up to and aspire to be.

  Mark Indelicato

  Years, America, Role Models

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for even they cannot change this law of nature and they know it. It is up to us, not only by example but by positive acts, to make the most of this driving force within mankind.

  Allen Dulles

  Freedom, Men, Law

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• 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

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

  "Together with Business Studies XI". Book by Rachna Sagar, p. 225, 2016.

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• Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Sex, Should, Determine

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.

  Julian Barnes

  Art, Grief, Stories

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• People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

  Veronica Roth

  Father, People, Tobias

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• Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Time, Journey

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Ah, Sun-flower!'

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