Aspire Quotes
357 Aspire quotes by 310 unique authors
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The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are held…
— Wilbur Smith
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I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is…
— Nicholas Sparks
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It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that…
— George MacDonald
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We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve,…
— Ayn Rand
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If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard…
— Carter G. Woodson
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Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you overlook her most important qualities of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
— Mitch Albom
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The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire.…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society…
— Stephen King
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There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what…
— R A Salvatore
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For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
— Elie Wiesel
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But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn…
— Ayn Rand
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They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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Our Heavenly Father loves each one of us and understands that this process of climbing higher takes preparation, time, and commitment. He understands that we…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently…
— Edwin A. Abbott
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Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A…
— Mitch Albom
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
— Pindar
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To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of…
— Garth Stein
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When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be…
— Muriel Barbery
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Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one…
— Muriel Barbery
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Aspire Quotes
310 authors contributed a total of 357 Aspire Quotes, led by these top contributors: