Aspirations Quotes

394 Aspirations quotes by 343 unique authors

What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took?… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the… — Gordon B. Hinckley
My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess. — Janet Evanovich
Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going… — Epictetus
Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their… — Anne Fadiman
..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in fact the problem… — Susan J. Douglas
Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the… — Leon Uris
We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad… — Irving Stone
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than… — Albert Schweitzer
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed… — James A. Baldwin
In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the… — Marcel Proust
I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with… — Kay Redfield Jamison
What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct… — Arthur Conan Doyle
India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it,… — Thrity Umrigar
The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make… — Ann Druyan
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. — Henry David Thoreau
I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the… — Jose Saramago
If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon… — James Howard Kunstler
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor… — Nelson Mandela
Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything… — James A. Baldwin
To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. — Ronald Reagan

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