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Definition of Aspiration
Aspiration

The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.

The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration.

The act of aspiring of a ardently desiring; strong wish; high desire.

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Aspiration Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

Aspiration Translations

aspiration in German is Einsaugung, Aufsaugung
aspiration in Spanish is absorpcion


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