Aspiration Quotes

No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

I have no political aspirations. Thats it.

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

Living Beauty is about creating a new ideal, a new reality, and a new aspiration for yourself. It's a guide filled with knowledge, secrets, and solutions to make you look and feel great

I shall go wherever I am asked to participate for freedom.

The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.

Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind.

I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.

I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

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

Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

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

People who plead with you for favours May eventually prove to be great flatterers. Your friends are only those Who all the time cheerfully support Your heart's aspiration-flames.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on.

Approach each new day as a new opportunity to be the person you aspire to be.

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

If we are honest with ourselves and listen quietly ... we all harbor one fiercely held aspiration for our healthcare - that it keep us healthy.