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• Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.

  Mitch Albom

  Daughter, Mother, Regret

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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• Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

  Edwin A. Abbott

  Hope, Self, Ignorant

  Edwin A. Abbott, Thomas Banchoff, Seth Caplan, Jeffrey Travis, Dano Johnson (2009). “Flatland: The Movie Edition”, p.80, Princeton University Press

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• Our Heavenly Father loves each one of us and understands that this process of climbing higher takes preparation, time, and commitment. He understands that we will make mistakes at times, that we will stumble, that we will become discouraged and perhaps even wish to give up and say to ourselves it is not worth the struggle. We know it is worth the effort, for the prize, which is eternal life, is “the greatest of all the gifts of God.” And to qualify, we must take one step after another and keep going to gain the spiritual heights we aspire to reach.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Father

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• They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dream, Nice, Believe

  "The Babylon 5 Calendar". 1998.

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• But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.

  Ayn Rand

  Destiny, Men, Views

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.590, Hamilton Books

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• Just recognizing and naming that many of the things we treat as historical fact are stories can help erode their power over our sense of identity and thinking. If they are stories rather than "truth," we can write new stories that better represent the country we aspire to be. Our new stories can be about diverse people working together to overcome challenges and make life better for all, about figuring out how to live sustainably on this one planet we share, and on deep respect for cooperation, fairness, and equity instead of promoting hyper-competitive individualism.

  Annie Leonard

  Country, Writing, Thinking

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• The person that inspires me and has inspired me my whole life is my grandmother. She's strong, head of the household, the person everyone turns to, the one that can solve problems. She's just so warm and caring, loving, but at the same time very strong and can do anything, in my eyes. A great role model and someone that I aspire to be like in life.

  Daniella Alonso

  Strong, Eye, Grandmother

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• Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.

  Michael Skolnik

  Years, Goal, Four

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 7, 2012.

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• I will say what I aspire to is a consistency in making films, to direct something every couple of years.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Couple, Years, Consistency

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Hate, Latin, Men

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.192, Book Tree

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• Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Pieces, Recognition, Worthy

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• The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Views, Shining

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• We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Philosophy, Fall, Men

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• Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humble

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.18, Yale University Press

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• 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

  Thinking, Funny Marriage, Wish

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

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• I really asked myself, “Oh, my god, how am I going to do this?” That’s what I aspire to, every time I take on a new role.

  Emily Blunt

  Roles, Looks, Asking

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.

  Jim Shepard

  Distance, Thinking, Clay

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.

  Eric Drooker

  Artist, Thinking, Museums

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Role Models, Roles, Glory

  Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, People, Quality

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I didn't aspire to write and never considered it as a career option.

  Vantile Whitfield

  Writing, Careers

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• When I'm around people who are incredibly passionate about what they're doing, people who live their lives in a more selfless way than most people. That's when I'm inspired. That's what I aspire to do and be.

  John Rzeznik

  People, Selfless, Passionate

  "John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Art, Soul, Genius

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• ...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Daughter, Regret

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• In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dream, Book, Other Worlds

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.6, Ballantine Books

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