Aspire Quotes
357 Aspire quotes by 310 unique authors
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One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what…
— Mitch Albom
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There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to…
— Karen Marie Moning
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... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made,…
— Gretchen Rubin
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Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically,…
— Dalai Lama
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We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the…
— Richard Matheson
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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be,…
— Anna Quindlen
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...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just…
— Mitch Albom
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My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we…
— Amy Carmichael
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Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but since I'm not…
— Ally Carter
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Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.
— Sarah Dessen
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When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love,…
— Og Mandino
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Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe…
— Noam Chomsky
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Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.
— Yann Martel
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If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I’d be killed. An honorable death…
— Frank Beddor
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Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.
— George R. R. Martin
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One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
— Vernor Vinge
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. . . But experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.
— Carl Jung
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So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is…
— Michael Phelps
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When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the…
— Julian Barnes
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People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
— Veronica Roth
Who Wrote These Aspire Quotes
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