#aspiration

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

— DeForest Kelley

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The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so. ↗

— Tim Scott

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

— Iain Duncan Smith

#becoming #danger #preserve #seems #wealthy

At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#dreams #freedom #success #dreams

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. ↗

— Jane Austen

#self-awareness #self-improvement #wise

If you will but aspire You will attain to all that you desire. Before an atom of such need the Sun Seems dim and mirky by comparison. It is life's strength, the wings by which we fly Beyond the further reaches of the sky. ↗

— Farid al-Din Attar

#dreams-coming-true #inspiration #strength #dreams

Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it. ↗

— Chinua Achebe.

#inspirational #writing #inspirational

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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