Aspiration Quotes

• Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

  

  Judith Jamison
  • Dance
  • Ending
  • Aspiration

• The only way you learn is by doing. You learn through deed, so that's kind of my aspiration for the time being.

  Eugene Simon
  • Learn
  • Aspiration
  • Deed

• My aspiration isn't to be famous; it's to design clothes. If that gets me attention at the end of the day, cool.

  

  Sofia Richie
  • Attention
  • Design
  • Aspiration

• The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities - e.g. science, art, religion - is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise... a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Art
  • Political
  • Mean

• I'd love to find a small movie that someone would sign off on me to do. I have no aspirations to do a big studio film because I don't think anyone would let me.

  

  Miguel Ferrer
  • Film
  • Studios
  • Aspiration

• Throughout my life, I have held the strongest belief that if you write down what you want to accomplish in your life: your dreams, goals, hopes and aspirations, you are much more likely to achieve them. I have been writing down my goals since I was a kid, and I've had more success than I could have ever dreamed of... one goal at a time.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Dream

• When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

  

  Hugh Newell Jacobsen
  • Reading
  • Pride
  • Looks

• 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.

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • Team
  • Interest
  • Solutions

• Your desire to withdraw from everything when Allah has involved you in the world of means is a hidden appetite. Your desire for involvement with the world of means when Allah has withdrawn you from it is a fall from high aspiration.

  

  Ahmad ibn Ajiba
  • Desire
  • Appetite
  • Aspiration

• So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that human community is capable of, a Fifth Column that is willing to look at the structure of the psyche in contrast to the mess of society, and willing to dream.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Dream
  • Community
  • Capable

• It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.

  

  Michael Harrington
  • Certain
  • Opportunities
  • Advantage

• Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.

  

  Wendy Wright
  • Dream
  • Humans
  • Longing

• The more aspiration is partial realization.

  

  Anna Cora Mowatt
  • Realization
  • Aspiration

• 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.

  

  Mike Greenberg
  • Wanted
  • Providence
  • Aspiration

• Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.

  

  Stephen Samuel Wise
  • Vision
  • Aspiration
  • Outward

• Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Crazy
  • Imagine
  • Communicate

• I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Bigs
  • Historical
  • Epic

• I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Aspiration
  • Toms

• Repentance is another name for aspiration.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Name
  • Repentance
  • Aspiration

• Making the process better, easier, and cheaper is an important aspiration, something we continually work on—but it is not the goal. Making something great is the goal.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Work
  • Goal
  • Aspiration

• Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Important
  • Real
  • Community

• The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Action
  • Darkness
  • Employment

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