Aspire Quotes - Page 19

• I want a lot of young people to see me in my working environment. I want them to see me being a good person while also running a business. I want young people to aspire to that.

  Zendaya

  Running, People, Want

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

  Philip Kitcher

  Perspective, Different, Philosopher

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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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. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you will threaten the man.' Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices, always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now, marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support, but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Inspiring, Girl, Women

  "We should all be feminists". TED Talks, www.ted.com. December 2012.

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• The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Ought

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

  Lee Iacocca

  Education, Teacher, Responsibility

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• At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings of the ground are my model accomplishment-everything else I do must aspire to that. While I was at that work the world gained with every move I made, and I harmed nothing.

  Wendell Berry

  Moving, Healing, Home

  Wendell Berry (2012). “A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural”, p.43, Counterpoint Press

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• Tom Coburn never forgot that members of Congress are spending the hard-earned money of the people back home. Even a lot of conservatives end up forgetting that. Here's hoping that back in the private sector, Tom Coburn keeps up the fight for his beliefs and that he remains a constant reminder to lawmakers and the White House of ethical standards to which all should aspire.

  John Fund

  Home, Fighting, White

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• Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Moving, Men, Earthquakes

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• There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.

  Sheryl Crow

  Integrity, Musician, Rock N Roll

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• I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

  Sade Adu

  Ambition, People, Picks

  "Sade soldiers on leisurely to keep love alive" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. August 24, 2011.

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  Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Dream, Real, Odds

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage

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• Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix of personal anecdotes, hard evidence and all-too-often-underrated subjective admonitions, Bogle challenges each of us to aspire to become better members of our families, our professions and our communities.  Rarely do so few pages provoke so much thought.  Read this book.

  David F. Swensen

  Life Lesson, Book, Thought Provoking

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• Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

  Mary Ruefle

  Bird, Poet

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• Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

  Joely Richardson

  Seize The Day, Wells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

  Dan Simmons

  Movie, Three, Four

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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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• Despite [] promises, I am concerned that there has been no discernible progress in the case. Equally concerning is the fact that Goran Radosavljevic, the commander of the facility where the Bytyqi's were murdered, remains a close advisor to the current government.... I call upon the Serbian government to also aspire to new heights in its own processing of war crimes from the 1990's and to finally ensure justice in the Bytyqi case.

  Lee Zeldin

  War, Government, Justice

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• The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life.

  Russell Kirk

  Running, Men, Hoarding

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.362, Regnery Publishing

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• In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

  Don DeLillo

  Editing, Self, Voice

  1982 Owen Brademas. The Names, ch.5.

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• We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

  Thomas Friedman

  Independent, Energy, Needs

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• Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?

  Jessica Zafra

  Fall, Would Be, Sometimes

  Jessica Zafra (2000). “Twisted”

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• While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love.

  Jessica Zafra

  Fun, Love Is, Madly In Love

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects; we too could learn how to know the world and reshape our environment to meet our own needs.

  Don Cupitt

  Religious, Ideas, Having Fun

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• Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.

  Romano Prodi

  Taken, Europe, Political

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• Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

  Mary Oliver

  Sentences

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