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• That sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important

  Hazel Blears

  Moving, Ambition, Important

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• The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

  Peter McWilliams

  Ambition, Comfort, Excuse

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Desire

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.203

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• After returning from his stint in the minors made reference to the movie Slapshot with: I'm happy to be back. It was never my aspiration as a kid to play in the Federal league.

  Glenn Healy

  Kids, Hockey, Play

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• Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

  Samuel Gompers

  Struggle, Order, Long

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• Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a life, but agreement between ideals, aspirations and deeds is key to a life of peace, happiness and success.

  David Simon

  Keys, Agreement, Choices

  David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.33, Health Communications, Inc.

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• What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Art, Wish

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• 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

  Kindness, Heart, Life Is Short

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• New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, New York, Powerful

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• If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something real and separate, than perfection is impossible, and there can be no God... except for the aspirations of fallen angels.

  Tad Williams

  Religious, Powerful, Real

  Tad Williams (2000). “Otherland 3: Mountain of Black Glass”, p.84, Penguin

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• Since God often sends us inspirations by means of His angels, we should frequently return our aspirations to him by means of the same messengers.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspiration, Mean, Angel

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• Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Creativity, Buddhism, Names

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• Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Self, Perfection

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black

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• Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it provides spiritual values. It puts man in touch with the highest aspirations and lofiest goals. It offers intellectual delight and the exultation of resolving the mysteries of the universe.

  Morris Kline

  Spiritual, Art, Science

  Morris Kline (2013). “Mathematics for the Nonmathematician”, p.551, Courier Corporation

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• The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

  Albert Einstein

  Christian, Religious, Principles

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Men, Aim, Raises

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• When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, Sky, Soul

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1861). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.226

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• The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

  Eric Hoffer

  Liberty, Manifestation, Humans

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to behold and commune with something grander than man. Their mere distance and unprofanedness is an infinite encouragement. it is with infinite yearning and aspiration that I seek solitude, more and more resolved and strong; but with a certain weakness that I seek society ever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Encouragement, Strong, Distance

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives - and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

  John Burroughs

  Beautiful, Song, Nature

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Birds and poets, with other papers”

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• The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Knowledge, Science, Hands

  Robert Andrews Millikan (1924). “The electron, its isolation and measurement ant the determination of some of its properties”

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• True meditation can never be done with the mind. Very often we make a mistake when we say that we are meditating in the mind and utilising the mind. Real meditation is done in the psychic being and in the soul. It goes hand in hand with flaming aspiration, the burning flame that wants to climb up to the Highest.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Real, Mistake, Flames

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• If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  "Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium". Book published by the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, Inc., New York, 1941.

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• Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can achieve awesome goals, we can be the best. 'Spare me the grim litany of the 'realist;' give me the unrealistic aspirations of the optimist any day.

  Colin Powell

  Change, Attitude, Talking

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• There is new hope among people that this dispensation can fulfill their aspirations.

  Narendra Modi

  Emotional, People, New Hope

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