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Definition of Aspire
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

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

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

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

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
Phillip E. Johnson

All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.
Byron Dorgan

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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