Aspiration Quotations

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.

Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.

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

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.

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

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

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

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.

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.

My biggest aspiration is to inspire people to do good. I believe that our wish for a harmonious world begins and ends with doing good. To inspire and empower people to focus on goodness, I wrote a new book called 'Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World through Doing Good.'

I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

My view is the core engine supporting India's growth aspiration will be the financial sector, which will have to get more efficient.

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.

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

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

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

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

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

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

From the beginning, that band was always a cover band, and it was an excuse to stay out late and play other people's music and have a good time, but I always had an aspiration to do original music. I jumped at the chance when Dave presented it to me.

China will continue to build up democracy with its own characteristics and improve its people's human rights based on the actual situation and the aspiration of the people,

The Palestinians will always be our neighbors. We respect them and have no aspiration to rule over them,

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

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Recalling history and looking into the future, I hope the country and the nation will never be bullied by others. Therefore prosperity and peace is the goal we should pursue. We must seek peace and development through peaceful coexistence and cooperation and share prosperity in the future. I believe it is the grand common aspiration of our nation,

President Abbas is a man devoted to peace and to his people's aspiration for a state of their own,

It is Belarus' aspiration to hold free and fair elections complying with the law and international obligations of our country, so our desires here coincide with Ukraine's.

Our aspiration is to be the largest, most dynamic, vibrant mobile community offering to consumers. Our starting point is a mobile entertainment service, and that is a steppingstone to a broader conception of mobile community.

I thought she did great. I had tears in my eyes. It's neat to see your kid have an aspiration like that at such a young age and see her pull it off.

I would like to work with you to turn our aspiration and prospects into reality,

(USF) coach (Jim) Leavitt contacted me, which he has done before, and this time I decided to take the opportunity. South Florida is a very stable environment with a program on the rise. My future aspiration is to help USF win the Big East, get in the BCS and go for the national title.

Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome.

I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. Its exhausting. You get cold.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.

There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect.

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

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

We have a man [Donald Trump] who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens.

We both believe sustainable, healthy and stable development of Sino-US ties conforms to ... the common aspiration of our two peoples,

We're pleased with the recent sound development of Sino-US relations, ... We both believe it's the common aspiration of the two peoples to maintain sustained, healthy and stable development of bilateral ties.

The government wants to meet its obligation to all the major downstream players that have committed a lot of money to downstream oil and gas, necessary to meet the aspiration that the president has already articulated.

Speaking for the nation as a whole entails understanding and feeling the pain, as well as understanding the aspiration of the different cultural, social and political make-up of the nation.

Coming to America is becoming a national aspiration rather than simply reflecting abject economic conditions.

There's a great aspiration to get fourth place, which means every game has a lot at stake,

To clear up this obstacle and thus improve bilateral ties is the common aspiration of the two countries' people and serves their basic interests.

We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

To resolve the Taiwan issue and achieve the final reunification of the motherland is the common aspiration of all Chinese at home and abroad.

Your visit attracted much attention worldwide, and the document of 'common aspiration and prospects for cross-Straits peace and development,' which we jointly issued with a view to promoting the benefits of compatriots on both sides of the Straits, is of great significance to pushing forward the cross-Straits relations on a path of peace and stability,

No aspiration in today's world is more urgent and more compelling than our fight against poverty.

No matter what you are or who you are, you have to continue to prove yourself. That?s the aspiration we set for this particular team. Freshmen and sophomores might have different aspirations. But seniors aspire to win games.

This is incomplete. The constitutional assembly is the aspiration of the people.

I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration

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

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

A king, who rules as per the aspiration of people will naturally become popular. He will successfully rule his kingdom for a very long time.

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

It's the one thing everybody has in common, the aspiration to have a relationship with the United States . . . and also to express gratitude and patriotism to the United States for providing the opportunity.

It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.

Each prayer is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing which to choose, I do like children who do not know how to read, I say very simply to God what I wish to say, without composing beautiful sentences, and He always understands me. For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.

We are very apt to measure ourselves by our aspiration instead of our performance. But in truth the conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts.

It is the common aspiration of the international community to safeguard the Security Council's authority when dealing with significant issues like the Iraq issue,

There's a huge number of particularly children who are now getting aspiration pneumonia from the amount of seawater they have taken into their lungs,

Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.

I think talking's important. I think aspirations are critical.

I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.

My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel comfortable seeing.

I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.

Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas.

I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

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

Longing performs all things

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

I’ve always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely.

Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.

My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

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

My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

Moderate aspirations lead to a contended life. I don't have to buy the airplane and I can't drive the tank!!

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.

I have no political aspirations. Thats it.

When I was younger, I didn't have any aspirations to be an actress.

All language is an aspiration to music.