A person can have a lot of aspirations but the most important one should be about the motherland and people. This is the anchor of all concrete aspirations and the backbone of life. — Xi Jinping
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. — Wilfred Owen
Ambition is priceless, its something that's in your veins. — Wale
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus
Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life. — Lloyd Blankfein
Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying. — Nannie Helen Burroughs
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. — William Lilly
Short Aspiration Quotes
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'. — George Bernard Shaw
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. — Alan Cohen
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. — Albert Einstein
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. — Evan Esar
Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it. — W. W. Jacobs
The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are. — Esther Hicks
I want to be one of the biggest social media stars ever to become an actor. — Jake Paul
Aspire to be a superhero. Not a normal person with a bigger house and nicer car. — Andrew Tate
I don't want to be a Snapchat star. I barely want to be a YouTube star. — Logan Paul
Aspiration Image Quotes
Aspire to inspire before you expire.
I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all. — Anne Hathaway
To achieve you need a to-do list. To achieve greatness you need a not-to-do list. Use this tip for your personal success and business goals. Start writing down aspirations you don’t need to get done right now and use as monthly moonshot goals. I prefer to call this a “not-yet-list.” It helps keep your “to-do-list” shorter without losing sight of a great idea. Eventually items from the not-yet-list move to the to-do-list.
Career Aspiration Quotes
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. — Peter Agre
My goal there on the business side of things is to become the Dr. Dre of social media. He was mentoring younger artists and helping them launch their careers, like Eminem. — Jake Paul
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. — Mark Twain
This Internet stuff is definitely not my future. — Logan Paul
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. — Major Taylor
It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them. — Timothy Spall
I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure. — Jean Dubuffet
My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers. — Dylan O'Brien
Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos. — Patrick Lencioni
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide. — Harper Lee
Positive Aspiration Quotes
I find negativity is infectious and also very depressing. Choose friends who you admire and aspire to be like! Positive, driven and determined. — Martyn Ford
Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience. — Sonia Choquette
'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is; whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else. — Angie Stone
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. — Gloria Steinem
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. — William Faulkner
One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for even they cannot change this law of nature and they know it. It is up to us, not only by example but by positive acts, to make the most of this driving force within mankind. — Allen Dulles
It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail. — Abby Sunderland
Many aspire to change the world but few realize that everyone accomplishes that goal. Each day you live you are changing something. Rather than simply changing the world, one should aspire to make a positive change with each action they commit. — Anonymous
Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him. — C. J. Mahaney
In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing. — Anthony Bourdain
Inspiration And Aspiration Quotes
A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what he is going to do. What he cares about is that he follows the music. You see, we are painters. We paint the music with our feet. — Carlos Gavito
The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations. — Haile Selassie
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. — Henry David Thoreau
Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save. — Annie Besant
So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial. — Ossian Everett Mills
Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams. — Pope John XXIII
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards. — Ted Koppel
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. — David Gergen
For those who aspire to become K-pop artists, I’d like to say ‘Have confidence and love yourself.’ — Lisa Manoban
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. — Cesar Chavez
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. — Samuel Adams
Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino. — Julius Nyerere
We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination. — Hassan al-Banna
If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants. — Mas Oyama
We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness. — Tommy Douglas
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
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy. — Dorothy Parker
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
Life Aspiration Quotes
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them. — Eminem
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. — Sivananda
I want to make money so later on in life I can do big things. — MrBeast
To move forward in life, it's always helpful to honestly acknowledge where you are right now, rather than where you used to be or aspire to be in the future. — Rangan Chatterjee
We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't. — Alex Gaskarth
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential. — Pope John XXIII
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. — Albert Einstein
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. — Kenichi Ohmae
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it. — Oscar Wilde
When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him. — Simone Weil
Dreams And Aspirations Quotes
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them. — William James
I'm the product of my parents' dreams and aspirations. — Jensen Huang
Thinking about the future and having dreams and aspirations keeps us young, even as we grow older. — Peter Attia
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. — Max Ehrmann
Concern yourself not with what you tried
and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. — Pope John XXII
The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the aspirations and ideals of the people, in the way it makes itself a part with the finer things that humanity does and dreams of. — Charles Ives
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. — Louisa May Alcott
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize.
Behind every word flows energy. — Sonia Choquette
Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away. — Alexander Pushkin
The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile. — Ross Perot
Aspire To Greatness Quotes
Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trail as well as joy; finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus. — Therese of Lisieux
There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people. — Winston Churchill
I want to have one of the great investment records of all time, why not? — Bill Ackman
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me. — Matthew Modine
Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder. — N. T. Wright
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. — Anna Quindlen
Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it. — Sarah Dessen
Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity. — Brian Tracy
I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else. — Jim Harrison
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
Goals And Aspirations Quotes
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement. — Kurt Lewin
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. — Harvey Mackay
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. — Marshall McLuhan
You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them. — Brian Tracy
All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable
to hard work. — Brian Tracy
Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. — Viktor E. Frankl
We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and tangible goals with priorities and time frames. — Merlin Olsen
The majority of the people I've taken photographs of, I've had conversations with. "What are your goals and aspirations?" "What are you about?" It's not just about me capturing the image; I want to know what you are about. — Jamel Shabazz
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
Happiness is a myth we seek,
If manifested surely irks;
Like river speeding to the plain,
On its arrival slows and murks.
For man is happy only in
His aspiration to the heights;
When he attains his goal, he cools
And longs for other distant flights. — Kahlil Gibran
Self Aspiration Quotes
Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. — Zig Ziglar
You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights. — Brian Tracy
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control. — Epictetus
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. — Elie Wiesel
I'd want to be born once more as myself, but more talented. — Akira Toriyama
Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements. — Albert Bandura
Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism. — Paramahansa Yogananda
There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved. — Sri Chinmoy
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. — Charles Horton Cooley
I'm never satisfied with what I do. I always think I can do it a lot better. — Michael Jackson
Aspiring Writers Quotes
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. — Jim Harrison
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes. — Aaron Sorkin
I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists. — Sunny
Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review. — William Kennedy
The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write in the presence of fear, to go to those places that you think you can’t write - really that’s exactly what you need to write. — Cheryl Strayed
I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not. — Jack Black
To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do. — Beverly Jenkins
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. — Gene Weingarten
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to. — Don Delillo
I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my family, a typical aspirational Jewish family, being a writer was very much exalted, and it seemed impossible to me, that I could ever do something like that. — Mark Leyner
Act Aspire Quotes
I'd like to be a superhero or a supervillain in a huge action movie. I want to play, like, the Joker or something like that. — Jake Paul
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection. — Rebecca Solnit
I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much. — Nicholas Sparks
Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. — William James
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
We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act. — William Winwood Reade
Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on. — John L'Heureux
The force that has overcome Europe and destroyed entire states within days could cope with us, a handful of youngsters. It was an act of desperation . . . We aspired to only one thing: to sell our lives for the highest possible price. — Mordechaj Tenenbaum
Power to do good is the true and lawful act of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. — John Locke
When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. — Fulton J. Sheen
Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a protective mechanism, programmed to protect its own interests at all costs. — U.G. Krishnamurti
Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family — Ban Ki-moon
If Christians around the world were to suddenly renounce their personal agendas, their life goals and their aspirations, and begin responding in radical obedience to everything God showed them. the world would be turned upside down. How do we know? Because that's what first century Christians did, and the world is still talking about it. — Henry Blackaby
We need to really start taking care of each other and not profiting off of each other's miseries. That shouldn't be our reality. That shouldn't be what we aspire to. It's not admirable in any way, shape, or form. — Lauren Jauregui
Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble aspiration that is encouraged, every sublime thought that is cultivated, adds to the development of will-force, good character, and attainment of eternal bliss and immortality. — Sivananda
It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit. — Theodor Herzl
Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX. — Mal Fletcher
In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system... The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment. — Heinrich Himmler
There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of good will, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of the supreme truth. — Mirra Alfassa
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. — Charles Baudelaire
Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance. — Satya Nadella
Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends. — Mas Oyama
Blue is a tranquilizer, imparting coolness to your system. Blue slows down your system so it can heal and mend. Positive qualities of blue are willpower, aspiration, and reliability. Foods of the blue vibration are: grapes, blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, and any other blue fruits or vegetables. — Tae Yun Kim
In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill. — Robert Lawson Shaw
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