Aspire Quotes

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

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.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

What man has done, man can aspire to do.

I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.

Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

I believe people I represent still aspire to the idea that our job as a generation is to provide more opportunity to the people coming after us, not less.

Just tell me one boy, just one who at seven didn't aspire to be a hero or a fireman.

I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

Ambition aspires to descend

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.

Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.

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

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain's is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir.

A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.

While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love.

Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons of God.

I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.

The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.

If you don't dance, for heaven's sake, you cannot aspire. You do not lift up from this earth.

When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognized for it.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.