Aspire Quotes

• You can have ambition
  But not too much
  You should aim to be successful
  But not too successful
  Otherwise you will threaten the man

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Ambition, Successful, Men

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.15, Vintage

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• We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Girl, Ambition, Mutual Support

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.15, Vintage

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• I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Responsibility, World

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• To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Passion, Desire

  James Allen, Mark Allen (1998). “As You Think”, p.76, New World Library

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• Aspire not to have more, but to be more.

  Oscar Romero

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• Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

  Brian Tracy

  Commitment, Acceptance, Excellence

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.11, Jaico Publishing House

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• Approach each new day as a new opportunity to be the person you aspire to be.

  Bill Courtney

  Opportunity, New Day, Approach

  Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.8, Weinstein Publishing

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  The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

  Robert Breault

  Discovery, Mind, Finding Your Path

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• You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Determination, Littles

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• Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leadership, Conscience

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (2003). “The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Exemplary Leadership”, p.10, John Wiley & Sons

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• To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

  John Avery

  Mean, Excellence, Achieve

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• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The 32nd Infantry Division in World War II". Book by Harold Whittle Blakeley, 1957.

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• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Life, Goal, Mind

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1982). “Inspiration & motivation”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• We need both to aspire and accomplish. Without a vision for your life, without a sense of purpose, you will begin to die a slow death.

  Erwin McManus

  Vision, Needs, Purpose

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.138, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You should aspire to a level of personal excellence - to be the best you can be. You should aspire to have the richest life you can get in terms of fulfillment, happiness and peace.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Excellence, Levels, Being The Best

  Kimora Lee Simmons (2009). “Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

  Seneca the Younger

  Success, Men, Forever

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• The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Change, Leadership, Choices

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (1998). “The Power of Servant-leadership: Essays”, p.123, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Running, Want, Way

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.

  Mark Shuttleworth

  Dream, Ambition, Goal

  "Mark Shuttleworth Answers At Length". Slashdot interview, interviews.slashdot.org. April 4, 2005.

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• I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Good Man, Whole

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• What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Aspiration, Frame Of Mind

  "A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected".

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• There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Clever, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

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• To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.

  Garth Stein

  Life, Joy, Encounters

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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