#aspiration

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago? ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#anyone #aspirations #away #decades #denied

I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records. ↗

— Drew Brees

#bigger #hope #hopes #i #our

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#being #clear #every #existence #him

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. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#aspirations #become #confusing #distracting #frustrating

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

#around #aspirations #deeper #destiny #ends

Não aspiro a nada. Dói-me a vida. Estou mal onde estou e já mal onde penso em poder estar. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#lack-of-motivation #life-and-living #life

To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#dedications #on-writing #aspiration

In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#goals #inspirational #motivational #inspirational

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

— James Allen

#become #controlling #desire #dominant #great

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. ↗

— Flora Lewis

#arisen #aspiration #concepts #democracy #dignity