Aspiration Quotes - Page 22

• Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on.

  John L'Heureux

  Darkness, Selfless, Goes On

  John L'Heureux (2007). “The Shrine at Altamira”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There are ideas in our hearts, there are wishes, there are aspirations, there are groanings, there are sighings that the world knows nothing about; but God knows them. So words are not always necessary. When we cannot express our feelings except in wordless groanings, God knows exactly what is happening.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Prayer, Heart, Ideas

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• If we are honest with ourselves and listen quietly ... we all harbor one fiercely held aspiration for our healthcare - that it keep us healthy.

  Rebecca Onie

  Healthy, Healthcare, Honest

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• When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when religion contradicts science on matters of fact, religion must yield.

  Frank Wilczek

  Believe, Yield, Matter

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• I don't have a life of my own. I've put myself and my life at the service of the people. If necessity dictates I run, I run.. go to jail, I go to jail.. die, I die.My private aspirations are exactly the general aspirations of the people.

  Yusuf Idris

  Running, Jail, People

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• A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.

  Alan Light

  Rocks, Mysterious Things, Differences

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• We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Quality, Paint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, Graphic Arts Books

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• Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

  Jean Houston

  Perception, Growth, Stories

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• I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

  George MacDonald

  Desire, Christ, Slave

  George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons”, p.80, Regent College Publishing

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• I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably come about if I found a project that I really felt passionate about.

  Guy Pearce

  Passionate, Way, Projects

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• The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

  Kerri Walsh

  Children, Ifs And, Giving

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• The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to oneself, are its chief features. He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of goodwill; and the converse of this is true also — he who preaches the gospel of goodwill, teaches Theosophy.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Kindness, Passion, Animal

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• Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

  J. William Fulbright

  Maturity, Finals, Accommodations

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• We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.

  Tommy Douglas

  Dream, People, Vision

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• If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants.

  Mas Oyama

  Regret, Effort, Needs

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• Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time comes and then it bears new fruit and so does not die. We are like grain. We never die because we are One with Nature. To understand this is to comprehend Immortality--the Apotheosis of the Human Race. It is with this conviction that I have lived my Life. My Life is a store of my experience, a Life of aspirations, sorrows, joys and triumphs.

  Martiros Saryan

  Flower, Race, Joy

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• You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

  Jack Johnson

  Greatness, Needs, World

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• We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Mistake, Grateful, Thinking

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• When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Book, Hands, Judging

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• There may be a time when a country will have to wake up from a vision of happiness, when they have to realize that theirs is not the perfect idea, that there are many aspects that do not correspond to the reality of what is there, the real need and aspirations of the people.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Country, Real

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.76, Penguin

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• I have weird aspirations. Like, I really want to kick a pigeon.

  Hannibal Buress

  Funny, Want, Pigeons

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• Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

  Epictetus

  Life, Desire, Opinion

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• She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

  Marguerite Duras

  Opposites, Wife, Infidelity

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• GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.

  James Marcus

  Expectations, Secret, Lows

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• Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.

  Michael Dibdin

  Criminals

  FaceBook post by Michael Dibdin from May 17, 2012

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