Aspire Quotes - Page 7

• Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which they suggest and aspire to bear, browsed on by fate; and only the most persistent and strongest genius defends itself and prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Children, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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• We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Eye, Exercise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2741, Delphi Classics

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• Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

  N. T. Wright

  Love Is, Tolerance, Virtue

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• Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Leader, Groups, Littles

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

  Susan Sontag

  Health, May, Imagine

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

  Lee Iacocca

  Country, Kids, Littles

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• It's always a dream to be on the cover, it's one of the things an athlete always aspires to do, to be on the cover of a videogame, but I never thought I would get to do it this quick.

  Dwyane Wade

  Dream, Athlete, Videogame

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. August 26, 2005.

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• Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Joy, Faces, Fine

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.49, Canongate Books

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• I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.

  Gail Simmons

  Want, Aggressive, Meek

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• I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  President, Messages, Division

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• I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

  Matthew Rhys

  Thinking, Television, Way

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• I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

  Vanessa Lengies

  Thinking, Play, Challenges

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• I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

  Mark Pincus

  Needs, Ceo, Engineers

  "Zynga’s Mark Pincus Talks About His Management Style, Acquisitions and Mobile". Live Blog, allthingsd.com. May 30, 2012.

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• In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Opening Up, House, Nonfiction

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• My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Hero, Careers, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.

  Michael Nutter

  Opportunity, Thinking, Cities

  "Philly Mayor Michael Nutter Thinks Local At DNC". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 5, 2012.

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• I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.

  Connie Nielsen

  Things In Life, Trying, Would Be

  "Connie Nielsen: Inspired by the city of her dreams". Interview with Mark Tutton, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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• I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.

  Connie Nielsen

  Art, Trying, Want

  "Connie Nielsen: Inspired by the city of her dreams". Interview with Mark Tutton, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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• The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

  B. J. Novak

  Writing, Laughing, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

  J. William Fulbright

  School, Atheism, Democracy

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.35, Random House

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• Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Destiny, India, Habit

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.142, Grove Press

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• Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

  Saul Williams

  Rap, Ghetto, Ideas

  "A new beginning for the word" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Journey, Goal

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• When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?

  Muriel Barbery

  Heart, Greatness, Jewels

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• O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

  Pindar

  Soul, Limits, Immortal Life

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