Aspiration Quotes

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Marcus Aurelius

Mean, Ambition, Idea

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Religion, Real, Atheism

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing

Love, Faith, Taking

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
James Allen

Great, Small, Become

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, Means, Word

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration - that person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.
Sonia Sotomayor

Life, Mother, Person

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
Theodor Adorno

Exclusive, Totality, Specific

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
Sri Aurobindo

Religion, Great, Alone

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen

Great, May, Thoughts

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
Rose Kennedy

Great, Hope, Mother

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!
Daniel Radcliffe

Long, Challenge, Write

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
Joseph Conrad

Human, Him, Made

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Allan Bloom

Success, Wise, Children

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Kurt Lewin

Successful, Goal, Last

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
Irving Babbitt

Great, Romantic, Leaders

But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.
Tim Scott

America, Leader, Question

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
Charles Dudley Warner

Family, Time, Happy

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
Charles Horton Cooley

Live, Past, Self

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
Iain Duncan Smith

Seems, Danger, Becoming

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
Nancy Pelosi

Dreams, Work, Best

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
Rahm Emanuel

House, Run, City

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.
Tony Kushner

Art, Movies, Hate

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.
Christopher Nolan

Experience, Movies, Mind

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
Margaret Fuller

God, Experience, Shows

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
Manuel Puig

Live, Greatest, Tropics

My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.
Mario Monti

Government, Loved, Respected

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.
Rosie O'Donnell

Height, Recognizes, Oprah

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.
Anna Sui

Business, Rock, Reason

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
John Morley

Cannot, Emotion, Prove

That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.
Peter Jurasik

Home, Pretty, Year

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