Aspiration Quotes · Page 17

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

— Fred Melamed

The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.

— Esther Hicks

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element…

— Lord Acton

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

— Susie Orbach

Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself…

— Iggy Pop

Hung verdict would have meant anger against previous govt; Clear verdict to BJP shows people voted for hope and aspiration.

— Narendra Modi

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.

— Sri Aurobindo

[Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow…

— David Lloyd George

Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

When I am there [Tibet], I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. His holiness [the Dalai Lama]…

— Richard Gere

We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you…

— Dalai Lama

Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our…

— Rajiv Gandhi

How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these…

— Irena Klepfisz

In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is…

— Robert Shaw

The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in…

— Dan Rather

“THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINS Laugh, I tell you And you will turn back The hands of time. Smile, I tell you And…

— Suzy Kassem

We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as,…

— Roger Ebert

We suffer the stress of infinite opportunity: There are so many things that we could do, and all we see are people…

— David Allen

I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't…

— Patti Smith

Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as…

— Daniel Odier

The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father…

— Anonymous

Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad…

— William J. Brennan

“Words are directed to your personalities namely; - God, your hearers, devil and yourself.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.

— Patanjali

“A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you.”

— Maurice Duffy

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter…

— Epictetus

“The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes…

— Israelmore Ayivor

[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.

— James Scott

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only…

— Irving Stone

Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might…

— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

— Eminem

I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen…

— Frederick Lenz

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

— Alexander Pushkin

If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.

— C. K. Prahalad

I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.

— George Saunders

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.

— Rosie O'Donnell

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even…

— Rahm Emanuel