(302 quotes found)
“Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.”
Sugar Ray Leonard
“The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.”
Hugh Newell Jacobsen
“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.”
Anthony Robbins
“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.”
Charles Baudelaire
“The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.”
William Shakespeare
“I saw a star, I reached for it, and I missed. So I accepted the sky.”
Scott Fortini
“I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature”
Sidney Hook
“Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.”
Baltasar Gracian
