Top 790 Aspire Quotes & Sayings

I want women to have all the opportunities that they aspire to.

Beauty has became a pejorative word in art. It was not something one should aspire to, because it was pedestrian. Beautiful things became cheap and easy. If it's cheap and easy, then upper classes aren't going to aspire to it. So, they have to find something more esoteric. I wanted the paintings to be realistic enough that you would have the ability to forget that I'm showing them to you.

I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

I'm exceptional in everything that I do and I aspire to do.

Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and selfrespect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

If I watch 'The X Factor,' I know I'm never going to aspire to sing, so I don't mind if they're good or bad, but when I watch 'Bake Off,' because I aspire to be good at it, I find it easy to try and put myself in their position.

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself.

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

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

However you can affect somebody positively is what you should aspire to do.

I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.

When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognized for it.

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.

Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to luminous chaos. Loving the power of grammar and the fine distinctions of language, I seek the part of the mind I didn't know was there, the part 'sheer,' 'no-manfathomed,' 'cliffs of fall.

I believe that all people aspire to be free.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

I do speak to kids a lot. I am very clear with them that not all of them should aspire to be me and not all of them should be aspire to be LeBron.

I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.

An Indian Muslim can aspire to become a Shah Rukh Khan, can aspire to become an Irfan Pathan or even the President of India. And that makes the Muslim here far more hopeful and far less in despair than in any other part of the world.

'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you will threaten the man.' Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices, always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now, marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support, but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?

As a Quaker, I aspire to be a pacifist.

I aspire to be useful.

Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid.

I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.

I guess that I have nothing more to aspire for.

I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.

I aspire to play interesting characters.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?

Fitness is something that you can aspire for in terms of levels of achievements.

I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

You should aspire to a level of personal excellence - to be the best you can be. You should aspire to have the richest life you can get in terms of fulfillment, happiness and peace.

I aspire only to silence.

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

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

I aspire to be a good dinner party host.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

I don't aspire to be the richest man.

I didn't aspire to be on Broadway.

It shouldn't matter what you're into, how you look - you can achieve whatever you aspire to.

You can't aspire to have heightened senses, whereas you can aspire to tell the truth, every single second, and you can aspire to be dogged and just never let anything be enough, never give in, and never give up.

I don't aspire to write like Steve King. Sure, I admire his work, and I think he's a hell of a nice guy; we met shortly after my first Stoker win. I aspire to write like Jonathan Maberry.

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

I aspire to be someone like Gillian Welch. What she does is play part of a group with two acoustic guitars with harmonies. She plays folk. However, there is no one that sounds like Gillian Welch. I aspire to come up with a unique sound like she has.

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.