Aspire Quotes - Page 9

• It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Wise, Extraordinary Person

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• I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes's horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to.

  Matthew Freud

  Mean, Media, News

  "Fox hunt: cracks in Murdoch dynasty as TV news chief finds himself in firing line" by Andrew Clark and James Robinson, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2010.

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• Hey! You can be more than just a car company. You can be more than just a pet food company. You can aspire to loving dogs, rather than just feeding dogs.

  Lee Clow

  Dog, Car, Pet

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• I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Order, Enlightenment

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• I do not aspire to be in fashion. For what is in fashion, goes out of fashion
  If, on the contrary, your work is contested today, it doesn't matter.
  For when it is finally understood, it will be for eternity.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Fashion, Matter, Today

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• In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. My friends, any man who aspires to be our president should keep both his treasure and his heart in the United States of America.

  Ted Strickland

  Heart, Men, America

  The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Just tell me one boy, just one who at seven didn't aspire to be a hero or a fireman.

  Miguel Delibes

  Hero, Boys, Fireman

  Miguel Delibes (1990). “The Stuff of Heroes”, New York : Pantheon Books

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• Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?

  Wale

  Rapper, My Favorite

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• In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Artist, Rocks, Ideas

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• It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Lucky, Courses, Appropriate

  "BLACKROCK: 'Investors Should Buckle Up For More Volatility Ahead'" by Mamta Badkar, www.businessinsider.com. July 21, 2014.

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• We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

  Maria Montessori

  Art, Children, Thinking

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• Super-heroes were created to represent the best in all of us. We should aspire to match their nobility, not their ability to shoot big chrome guns.

  Mark Waid

  Hero, Gun, Chrome

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• A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You’ll know that you’re likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, Personality, Overcoming

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Feb 18, 2014

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• This Is Me”: ”For the record, I am not gay and all my sexual experiences have been straight. I'm attracted to women, I love children and aspire to have a family one day … I know what it's like to grow up and be told what your sexuality is, then realising that it's not the full reality. I was accused of being gay before I knew who I was.

  Ian Thorpe

  Children, Growing Up, Gay

  "Ian Thorpe comes out as gay in Parkinson interview" by Nadia Khomami, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2014.

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• Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Boxing

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• He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he quits the common rank of life, steps forward beyond the lists, and offers his merit to the public judgement. To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, May

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.149

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• The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Religious, Light, Hands

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

  J. William Fulbright

  School, Atheism, Democracy

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.35, Random House

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• That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

  Lee Iacocca

  Country, Kids, Littles

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• Who exactly do you want to be? What kind of person do you
  want to be? What are your personal ideals? Whom do you admire? What are their special traits that you would make your own It's time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to become wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become. If you have a daybook, write down who you're trying to be, so that you can refer to this self-determination. Precisely describe the demeanor you want to adopt so that you may preserve it when you are by yourself or with other
  people.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Determination, Writing

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• The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

  Susan Sontag

  Health, May, Imagine

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• I aspire to be useful.

  Anthony Foxx

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• In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.

  Nigel Cole

  Hard Work, Class, Long

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• I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.

  Connie Nielsen

  Art, Trying, Want

  "Connie Nielsen: Inspired by the city of her dreams". Interview with Mark Tutton, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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• Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them,--that it was a vain endeavor?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Trying, Heroism

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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