Aspiring Quotes

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Nature, Minds, Within

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Place, Second, Reach

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz

Good, Women, Woman

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
Michel de Montaigne

Strength, Mind, Within

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope

Men, Best, Pride

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Major Taylor

Good, Career, Living

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
Ludwig van Beethoven

Far, Industry, Talents

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
Jim Harrison

Life, Give, Advice

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.
Susan Orlean

Advice, Used, Realize

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.
Diablo Cody

Work, Time, Live

I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'
Jason Reitman

Life, Famous, Career

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.
James Lafferty

Work, Learning, Nothing

People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.
Laurieann Gibson

Experience, Girl, Fight

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.
John Legend

Music, Business, End

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.
Kristen Bell

Work, Family, Business

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.
John Leonard

Reader, Appetite, Pancake

If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.
Nigel Lythgoe

May, Impossible, Chance

The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Kosovo's status.
Sebastian Junger

War, End, President

Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within.
Tory Burch

Help, Small, Big

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
Arianna Huffington

Alone, Game, Become

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.
Ellen Terry

Dream, Word, Spirit

My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground. I was afraid, very tentative to do anything with music for years. I didn't tell him I was playing in bands when I was away from home, because it had been such an unpleasant experience and a letdown for him.
Ronnie Dunn

Music, Home, Experience

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.
Keith Hernandez

Acting, Tell, Able

It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product.
Jim Sensenbrenner

End, Game, Young

'Dial Star' is about an aspiring actress who finds the cell phone of AnnaLynne McCord and impersonates her.
AnnaLynne McCord

Her, Star, Phone

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.
Alexander Downer

Yeah, Prime, Minister

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
Edward Carpenter

Life, Mind, Rude

Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia.
Robert Brady

Girl, Community, Open

I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although that certainly helps for aspiring music supervisors.
Alexandra Patsavas

Music, Knowledge, Important

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
Sergei Eisenstein

Knowledge, Human, Him

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Aspiring Definition

Dante Alighieri

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us