Aspiration Quotes - Page 8

• There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Passion, Athlete

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 06, 2017

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• Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Want, Easy, Settling

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2014

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• An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Philosophy, Years

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4514, Delphi Classics

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• For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know. It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not. People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.

  A. J. Green

  Inspiration, Mean, Cells

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• I think talking's important. I think aspirations are critical.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Talking, Important

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers. It has kept us from hearing their voices when they try to tell us their aspirations . . . kept us from believing that they share with men the desire for achievement, mastery, competence--the desire to do something for themselves.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Mother, Father, Believe

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• [Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often small, and initial visions that focus energy effectively often address immediate problems. What matters is engagement in the service of a larger purpose rather than lofty aspirations that paralyze action. Indeed, it's a dangerous trap to believe that we can pursue onlhy "great visions."

  Peter Senge

  Believe, Mean, What Matters

  Peter Senge, C. Scharmer (2011). “Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society”, p.127, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

  Pete Wentz

  Soccer, Play, Serendipity

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• Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Men, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Spring, Destiny

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.464, Wordsworth Editions

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• I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.

  Jennifer Stone

  Brother, Different, Knows

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• Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.

  Doris Lessing

  Mutual Help, Mind, Different

  Doris Lessing (2012). “Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• Company's vision must be driven by the aspirations of its customers.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Vision, Driven, Company

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• The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His fatherhood. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, “Thou art my refuge, because Thou art my home”. 

  George MacDonald

  Art, Home, Men

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• As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

  Tony Kushner

  Art, Hate, Practice

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• The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Giving Up, Acceptance, People

  "New Outlook" Journal, April 1977.

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• Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

  Sam Keen

  Memories, People, Giving

  Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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• Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.

  Elliot Perlman

  Writing, Holocaust, Sooner Or Later

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• The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.

  D. J. MacHale

  Blood, Leader, Trying

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: Quillan Games”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. Every person who aspires must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a better life.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Attitude, Promise, Mind

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• There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God.

  Sri Chinmoy

  God, Men, Yawning

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• I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?

  Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

  Love, Age, Love Is

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• Regardless of past aspirations, this is the right time to be focusing on services for two specific reasons The increasing ubiquity of broadband has made it viable, and the proven economics of the advertising model has made it profitable.

  Ray Ozzie

  Past, Ubiquity, Two

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• Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal nature of love, a presence, a journey. It's all of our aspirations. Peace is not a luxury or merely the absence of war, it's a kind of grace - which we're all entitled to as people who are alive. Peace is an active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Peace, War, Heart

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• What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

  Adam Braun

  Inspiring, Uplifting, Art

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