Definition of Aspire

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Aspire

To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality.

To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.

To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.

Aspiration.

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Aspire Quotations

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin

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

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

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

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

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. Rowling

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

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Baltasar Gracian

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
Kevin Bacon

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.
Drew Barrymore

Aspire Translations

aspire in Afrikaans is aansoek doen
aspire in French is aspirent, aspirer, aspirez, aspirons
aspire in German is aufstreben, streben, anstreben

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