Aspiration Quotes - Page 35

• Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Men, Soul, Independence

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• I've got no aspirations to become an A-list celebrity.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Lists, Fighter

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• Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Humanity, Goes On

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1182, Manonmani Publishers

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• Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.

  Thomas Cogswell Upham

  Growth, Progress, Gourds

  Thomas Cogswell Upham (1844). “Principles of the Interior Or Hidden Life: Designed Particularly for the Consideration of Those who are Seeking Assurance of Faith and Perfect Love”, p.283

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• I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.

  Ann Druyan

  Meaningful, Children, Believe

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• It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands.

  Paul Kurtz

  Courage, Destiny, Hands

  Paul Kurtz (1994). “Living Without Religion: Eupraxophy”

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• Longing performs all things

  Mary Renault

  Longing, All Things

  Mary Renault (2014). “The Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.276, Hachette UK

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• I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Country, Ambition

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• Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Memories, Book, Learning

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• By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations.... This is the way we get things done in America. One man tells another, does what he can, till the sum of these efforts grows into a national aspiration-a precious goal. Then occurs our miracle of democracy: because the groundwork has been surely laid, the goal is already within our grasp.

  Newton B. Drury

  Determination, Moving, Men

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• Turn all your thoughts and aspirations to heaven. Work hard to secure for yourself a place there for ever.

  Father Damien

  Hard Work, Heaven, Turns

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• Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Kindness, Heart

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• Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Team, Careers, Focus

  "Get Rid of Dysfunction". www.success.com. June 7, 2009.

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• Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Evil, Desire, Wealth

  Wallace D. Wattles (2013). “Think Yourself Wealthy”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'.

  James C. Scott

  Order, Civilization, Facts

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• Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Sleep

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• What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Moving, Community

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• Whatever inspires you is an aspect of yourself. Any desire of the heart exists to support you in discovering and manifesting it. If you have an aspiration to be something, it is because you have the potential to manifest the quality you are seeing and the behavior that this quality will bring forth.

  Debbie Ford

  Heart, Support You, Inspire

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• If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Entrepreneur, Resources, Greater

  "The Life’s Work of a Thought Leader" by Art Kleiner, www.strategy-business.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Living Beauty is about creating a new ideal, a new reality, and a new aspiration for yourself. It's a guide filled with knowledge, secrets, and solutions to make you look and feel great

  Bobbi Brown

  Reality, Creating, Secret

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• Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.

  Steve Backley

  Support You, Doubt, Share

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• Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Running, Fighting, Thinking

  Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.130, Hawthorne Books

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• Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Modern India, Addresses, Poverty

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• Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.

  Michael Bassey

  Dream, Character, People

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• The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Men, Keys

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