Aspiration Quotes - Page 38

• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  Kate Winslet

  Beautiful, Dream, Jobs

  "'I did have moments where I'd say, Oh my God ...'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2008.

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• A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Ambition, Mind

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• Whenever people listen to one another humbly and openly, their shared values and aspirations become all the more apparent. Diversity is no longer seen as a threat, but as a source of enrichment.

  Pope Francis

  People, Diversity, Source

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• It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

  Idries Shah

  People, Desire, Common

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• It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones.

  Dalai Lama

  Live Life, Suffering, Desire

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• My two older brothers are both molecular biologists and neuroscientists, and I feel like representing them accurately is never done in movies, and I really wanted to at least capture the spirit of a Ph.D. student whose goal and aspiration is to increase the sum total of human knowledge. That is noble. That was really, really important, to capture the three-dimensionality of scientists. Scientists fall in love, scientists have the greatest sense of humor, scientists are passionate.

  Mike Cahill

  Falling In Love, Brother, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The things that unite us-America's past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Past, America

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

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• I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.

  James D. Watson

  Law, Smoking, Brain

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• First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.

  Don DeLillo

  Letting Go, Exercise, Ideas

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.

  Freddie Mercury

  Growing, Boring, Growing Old

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• Miracles are everywhere to be found When I surrender my infinite desires To my immortal aspirations.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Miracle, Desire, Infinite

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• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  Waris Ahluwalia

  Curiosity

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• No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized.

  Chris Christie

  Home, Parent, Minimum Wage

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• Confidently open your most intimate aspirations to the Love of Christ who waits for you in the Eucharist. You will receive the answer to all your worries and you will see with joy that the consistency of your life which He asks of you is the door to fulfill the noblest dreams of your youth.

  Pope John Paul II

  Dream, Doors, Worry

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• We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Scotch, Catholic, Elements

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• If you have a dream, to make it happen, all you have to do is start with one video and take it one video at a time. It may seem a little daunting to go from registering your YouTube channel to making it a full-time career, but if that is an aspiration for you, it's 100% doable if you're authentic, if you're persistent, if you put your best foot forward, if you come at it with realistic and authentic aspirations and intentions. If you try, then it's possible.

  Tyler Oakley

  Dream, Careers, Feet

  Source: www.teenvogue.com

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• 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

  Taken, People, Goal

  Source: therumpus.net

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• New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.

  Molly Crabapple

  New York, Eye, Cities

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Kings, Struggle, Hero

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The film and media technology that's available today is going to be the most potent weapon in our arsenal in tackling ideological intolerance and ignorance, as well as the kind of fear and stereotyping that can dehumanize the others as the enemy, as being somehow less entitled to the privileges and the aspirations that we have.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Ignorance, Technology, Media

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• Women, in all fields - whether mothers or not - still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too many things together and often sacrifice their aspirations in the name of affections.

  Elena Ferrante

  Mother, Sacrifice, Numbers

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.301, Penguin

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• I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but to move through life untouched by the loss of hopes, beliefs and aspirations once cherished is also questionable.

  George Pattison

  Teenage, Moving, Loss

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and phrases like 'love' and the 'Kingdom of God'.

  George Pattison

  Like Love, Needs, Phrases

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda in relation to political and economic life it's rounding on religion, ignoring the fact that, in some key respects, many believers are likely to share leftist aspirations.

  George Pattison

  Keys, Political, Atheism

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• For others the mourning is over. Others would say that whilst one God has died - the God of ontotheology perhaps? - this allows for the good news of a God who is to come, a God who will be better able to gather up and give justice to all the manifold aspirations of human life towards goodness and meaning (and not just to those who are able to fit into a narrow 'religious' framework).

  George Pattison

  Religious, Giving, Justice

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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