Aspire Quotes - Page 24

• Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wise, Men, Fool

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• The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.

  Max Nordau

  Land, Community, Needs

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• One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

  Vernor Vinge

  Perfection, Empathy, Talent

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.454, Macmillan

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• . . . But experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is instirring within us the will to aspire. That will, wherever it finally leads, does at least move you forward. And after a time you may recognize That the proper measure of success is not how much you've closed the distance to some far-off goal but the quality of what you've done today.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Dream, Real, Distance

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage

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• A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Ambition, Men, Trying

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• There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.

  Luke Perry

  Real, Cowboy, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bill Moyers is everything I never aspire to be: Calm, Thoughtful, and Informative.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thoughtful, Bills, Calm

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• We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Choices, Failing, Personal Choice

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.169, Knopf

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• If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I’d be killed. An honorable death doesn’t exist. Death is death. But it’s funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy

  Frank Beddor

  Revenge, Enemy, Survival

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