Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
Samuel Smiles

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
Nicolas de Chamfort

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
Althea Gibson

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
Dan Simmons

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Jodie Foster

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Pliny the Elder

The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.
Yahoo Serious

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.
Jasmine Guy

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
Samuel Gompers

There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.
Sheryl Crow

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
Don DeLillo

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.
Thomas Friedman

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
Matthew Modine

We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there.
Trip Hawkins

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
Anna Jameson

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
John Lithgow