Best 227 quotes in «aspiration quotes» category

No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized.

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.

Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

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

The discipline of personal mastery...starts with clarifying the things that really matter to us (and) living our lives in the service of our highest aspirations.

The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.

The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.

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

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

There is new hope among people that this dispensation can fulfill their aspirations.

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

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

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia.

True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

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

We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.

Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing I ever thought anyone would ever let me do.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up

What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams.

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 without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

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

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

Whenever people listen to one another humbly and openly, their shared values and aspirations become all the more apparent. Diversity is no longer seen as a threat, but as a source of enrichment.

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.

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

Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere.

You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them.

Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.

The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation

You have to create tension between reality and aspiration

A confident woman knows her worth and so doesn’t fret when her man is highly placed or is often found amidst other women in the course of his business or assignment.

A longing for the extraordinary had grabbed ahold of her and was burning her up inside, so hot and fierce that her heart had gone stone cold toward everything and everybody standing in her way. That was Mama. Fire and ice.

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I saw others experiencing it too, many denying, by the way, that any such thing existed. And finally I decided that I would make boredom my subject matter. That I'd study it. That I'd become the world's leading authority on it. March, that was a red-letter day for humanity. What a field! What a domain! Titanic! Promethean! I trembled before it. I was inspired. I couldn't sleep. Ideas came in the night and I wrote them down, volumes of them. Strange that no one had gone after this systematically. Oh, melancholy, yes, but not modern boredom.

A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.

All I can do now is carry on with my life.

A lot goes into everything but sometimes you have to sacrifice everything in order to achieve a lot.

A matured woman is therefore a responsible woman irrespective of her age, status and qualification.

A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.