Aspiration Quotes - Page 17

• My purpose is to help people understand that leadership skills are useful and relevant for pursuing meaningful aspirations in all aspects of life, and that this is a choice, a decision, not a default.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Meaningful, Skills, People

  "Stewart D. Friedman on 'Leading the Life You Want'". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 22, 2016.

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• Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and forms of government or control, than existed in an entire continent at an earlier epoch.

  John Dewey

  Cities, Government, Community

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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• What brings us to perfection? An ingrained faith in God, the 'faith that makes real the things for which we hope' (Heb. 11:1), the faith whereby Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain and was commended as righteous (cf. Heb 11:4). It is such faith that fills those assiduous in the search for truth with great aspiration for the exalted gifts of God, and leads them to the spiritual knowledge of created beings; and it pours into their hearts the inexhaustible treasures of the Spirit.

  Niketas Stethatos

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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• India has, of course, aspirations of getting out of its poverty, ignorance, and disease which still afflict millions of people. But I do believe that we have something to offer to the rest of the world, including the United States.

  Manmohan Singh

  Believe, Ignorance, People

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

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• The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!

  Dale Jamieson

  Enlightenment, Nightmare

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Often when people tell their story, they talk about their strengths and resiliency. It's really about their determination and their aspiration to survive and live.

  Chath Piersath

  Determination, People, Stories

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think it's saying really that Donald Trump was the one person in the room who got it right, who understood America and reflected back to them what their aspirations and their fears and their frustrations were.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Frustration, Thinking, America

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It is a dictatorship. They did have a good health - do have a decent health care system and a decent educational system. A lot of people have left Cuba for better dreams, to fulfill their aspirations.

  Bernie Sanders

  Dream, Educational, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There are diverse ways in which - right now, terror and all that goes with it is a prime concern. It's a concern of the United States. It's a concern of India. Joint strategies, cooperation, joint sharing of intelligence, in controlling terrorism, in making the world free from terror. I think that's the fundamental, I think, consideration if our development aspirations are to be fulfilled. And I think our two countries can cooperate.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Thinking, Two

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• If you live in the [Middle East] area, you see [U.S actions] as part of a continuing drive for dominance, and with it a kind of obduracy, a stubborn opposition to the wishes and desires and aspirations of the people there.

  Edward Said

  People, Desire, Wish

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance.

  Paul Ryan

  Believe, Destiny, Differences

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, People, World

  Source: genius.com

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• The political awakening that is happening worldwide is a major challenge for America, because it means that the world is much more restless. It's stirring. It has aspirations which are not easily satisfied. And if America is to lead, it has to relate itself somehow to these new, lively, intense political aspirations, which make our age so different from even the recent past.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Mean, Past, America

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I'm very grateful and appreciative, and I remind myself every day that there are thousands and thousands of actors that have the same dreams and aspirations that I have.

  Eric Stonestreet

  Dream, Grateful, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.

  Cory Booker

  Country, Challenges, Sake

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• I had a very dear friend of mine, ton of potential, and he fell ill with bipolar disorder. And he was put in the penal system. And that was just adding fuel to the fire. He got worse. He came out and he's never been the same since. He can't seem to get his life back. And this is a man who could have had Hollywood in the palm of his hand. A lot of my inspiration and aspirations for wanting to be an actor, I owe to him. Between the disorder and him being put in jail, it just snuffed all of that away from him.

  Michael K. Williams

  Inspiration, Men, Fire

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• That's what I think is important to remember now and when you hear that slogan, "Make America great again." I think it's important that we remind everybody that America was never great in itself. It's been great in its aspirations.

  Adam Pally

  Thinking, America, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Humanity, Mind, World

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1959). “Against nature: a new translation of À rebours”

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• Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heaven, Legends, Crime

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind". www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be.

  Marcel Proust

  Moving, Book, Philosophical

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• Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Children, Guise

  Rabindranath Tagore (1976). “Fireflies”

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• There is new hope among people that this dispensation can fulfill their aspirations.

  Narendra Modi

  Emotional, People, New Hope

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• Hung verdict would have meant anger against previous govt; Clear verdict to BJP shows people voted for hope and aspiration.

  Narendra Modi

  Emotional, Bjp, People

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• We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and tangible goals with priorities and time frames.

  Merlin Olsen

  Basketball, Dream, Real

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• Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

  Ovid

  Destiny, Men, May

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