Aspiration Quotes - Page 6

• Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

  Victor Borge

  Humor, Men, Logic

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  Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011

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• Dreaming is one of humanity’s greatest gifts; it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.

  Richard Branson

  Dream, Champion, Humanity

  "Dream on" by Richard Branson, www.virgin.com. March 1, 2017.

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• You always want to be better than you are. No matter what, I think that's important.

  Blake Griffin

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

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• Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  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

  Art, Mean, Color

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

  Robert Fritz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual Vision

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• Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

  John Updike

  Positive, Success, Dream

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Mar 19, 2013

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• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Melania Trump Quote Sounds Suspiciously Similar To Marla Maples" by Alana Horowitz Satlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 04, 2016.

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• Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational, Positive, Meaningful

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• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The 32nd Infantry Division in World War II". Book by Harold Whittle Blakeley, 1957.

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• Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Inspirational, Life, Journey

  "AntiPatterns in Project Management". Book by Hays W. McCormick, W. Scott Thomas, and William J. Brown, 2000.

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• Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

  Sidney Lanier

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• I'm never satisfied with what I do. I always think I can do it a lot better.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational, Thinking, African American

  Interview with Sylvie Simmons, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

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• If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.

  Shantanu Narayen

  Ambition, Entrepreneur, Ambitious

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• Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it.

  W. W. Jacobs

  Funny, Dream, Humorous

  "The Monkeys Paw". Short story by W. W. Jacobs, 1902.

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• 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

  Change, Leadership, Choices

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (1998). “The Power of Servant-leadership: Essays”, p.123, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Concern yourself not with what you tried
  and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

  Pope John XXII

  Motivational, Success, Hope

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• Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up

  Sahndra Fon Dufe

  Inspirational, Availability, Looks

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• 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

  Inspirational, Brother, Selfish

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