Definition of Aspiration

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aspiration Translations

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

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