Aspiration Quotes - Page 5

• We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Achievement, Degrees, Strive

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• People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision.

  John P. Kotter

  People, Leader, Vision

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• The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Age, Youth, Young

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald at the Carlton"

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• The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

  Vannevar Bush

  Men, Scene, Persist

  VANNEVAR BUSH (1949). “MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY”

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• When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

  Hugh Newell Jacobsen

  Reading, Pride, Cities

  "America’s Cities Are Innovating for the Future" by Eric E. Schmidt, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2013.

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• The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

  John W. Gardner

  Age, Hallmark, Institutions

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• Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.

  Stephen Samuel Wise

  Vision, Looks

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• Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

  Paul Wellstone

  Dream, Past, Mirrors

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• I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

  John Galsworthy

  Wine, Drug, Dull

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• Repentance is another name for aspiration.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Names

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• He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Doe, Tiptoes

  Laozi (1997). “Tao Te Ching”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

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• His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

  Queen Victoria

  Husband, Soul, World

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• Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Becoming, Danger, Wealthy

  "Iain Duncan Smith vows to tackle 'absurd' welfare dependency", www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2010.

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• It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

  Robert Southey

  Dream, Nature, Men

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• We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Long, Treasure, Earth

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Sometimes I even felt like he dated me as part of his plan, like they were going to have a checklist on the application, and one of the things to tick off was going to be, "Do you have a reasonably intelligent girlfriend who shares your aspirations, and who is fully prepared to accept your limited availability?

  Maureen Johnson

  Girlfriend, Intelligent, Availability

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.46, Penguin

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• There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Longing, Moments

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• A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Heaven, Sufficient

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.180

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• The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.

  Heinrich Heine

  Kings, Fate, Men

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.87

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• I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Writing, Long, Challenges

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• The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.

  James Loeb

  Eye, Men, Littles

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• America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

  David Brooks

  Dream, America, Personality

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• If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Jobs, Self, Empowering

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• The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

  Richard Owen

  Men, Study, Psychological

  "The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, vol. 111". Journal by Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, William Empson, Macvey Napier, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Reeve, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (Hon.), Harold Cox, p. 521, 1860.

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