Aspiration Quotes - Page 28

• Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Feet, Bird, Height

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.719, Modern Library

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• [The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear…which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Art, Pain

  Joseph Conrad (2007). “The Portable Conrad”, p.48, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Law, Perfect, Mind

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1968). “The Science of Being and Art of Living”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

  Jack Johnson

  Greatness, Needs, World

  7 Copy quote

• I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, People, Confusion

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.25, Best Books on

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - have stood as a summary of our aspirations for the American Republic and for the world.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Years, Freedom Of Speech

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.171, Best Books on

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

  George MacDonald

  Desire, Christ, Slave

  George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons”, p.80, Regent College Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably come about if I found a project that I really felt passionate about.

  Guy Pearce

  Passionate, Way, Projects

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.

  James Marcus

  Expectations, Secret, Lows

  4 Copy quote

• I strive to view my students as unique human beings all of whom come to my classroom with a personal history, cultural perceptions and traditions, goals and aspirations as well as fears and insecurities. By employing the principles of Personalization, I am able to connect with my students in a genuine way in order to build trust, respect and rapport in the classroom.

  Joe Harris

  Unique, Order, Views

  8 Copy quote

• The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Phases, Democratic, Magna Carta

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.

  Vera Nazarian

  Daughter, Order, Imagination

  4 Copy quote

• Winners know what makes people tick by effectively tapping into our fears and aspirations. By listening very carefully and then repeating almost word-for-word exactly what they've heard, winners know how to articulate compelling needs—and products to satisfy those needs—that people didn't even know they wanted.

  Frank Luntz

  People, Listening, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.

  Robert Williams Buchanan

  Dark, Self, Joy

  Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith is utterly devoid of cartoons and caricatures of religion. It is, instead, a sober and soulful book, an exemplary practice of philosophical reflection. Scrupulous in its argument, elegant in its style, humane in its spirit, it is animated by a stirring aspiration to wisdom. Even as I quarrel with it I admire it.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Book, Philosophical, Reflection

  4 Copy quote

• Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Thinking, Differences

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

  Albert Camus

  Order, Rebellion, Form

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.23, Vintage

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary mistakes in
  the cosmos- evolutionary curiosities that rise like mayflies, swarm for a day, and are gone. We are players who are here to stay, and the universe was built with us in mind. We reflect it, with our deepest loves and loftiest aspirations, just as it reflects us.

  Eben Alexander

  Mistake, Player, Curiosity

  Eben Alexander (2014). “The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.

  Simon Winchester

  Ocean, Opportunity, Land

  4 Copy quote

• I've got hope, I've got dreams and I have aspirations. I don't need to climb mountains; I don't need to build nations. What I do need is the courage to look deep inside, Cos I'm me and from me I know I can't hide. I don't wish to fly, I'm quite happy to glide. I am who I am and I'll be me with pride.

  Patrick Kelly

  Motivational, Dream, Pride

  17 Copy quote

• Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dream, Autumn, Meditation

  "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Ambition, Race, Role Models

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient Jews--Micah, Isaiah, and the rest--who took no count whatever of what might not happen to them after death. It is not obvious to me why the same point should not by and by be reached by the Gentiles.

  Thomas Huxley

  Afterlife, Levels, May

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class and economics--dissolve, and all our authentic differences--cultures, personalities, sexualities, talents, and aspirations--emerge and are equally nourished.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Freedom, Distance, Class

  4 Copy quote

• The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In supporting them, we are showing solidarity with working people, for whom these are luxuries and not givens.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Meaningful, Dream, Luxury

  Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source