[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John…

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

— Charles Lamb

Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.

— William Arthur Ward

“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the…

— Kamand Kojouri

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

— Matthew Rhys

At the end of the day, everyone knows what it is to be loved and to aspire to love someone, to want to be…

— David Oyelowo

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.

— Fred Perry

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband,…

— Matthew Modine

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

— George Saunders

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

— Sunil Chhetri

I'm exceptional in everything that I do and I aspire to do.

— Omarosa Manigault Newman

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values…

— Harsha Bhogle

So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons…

— Dale Carnegie

... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education… The three R's, a littlemusic…

— Anna Julia Cooper

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that…

— Shepard Fairey

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too…

— Samuel Gompers