(302 quotes found)
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.”
Brendan Francis
“O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead! That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds which too untimely here did scorn the earth.”
William Shakespeare
“Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.”
Julius K. Nyerere
“Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.”
Mark Sanford
“Not everybody aspires to be a bank president or a nuclear scientist, but everybody wants to do something with one's life that will give him pride and a sense of accomplishment.”
Ronald Reagan
“I knew what his aspirations were and I had to make a decision in my mind: 'Do I worry about what his aspirations are or am I trying to make this program better?' And when I thought about the ways to make this program better, there was no better person suited for that position.”
Gary Waters
“To me they are all good guys. I don't look at them as role models because I aspire to be one of them, and I will soon.”
Michael Craig
“What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.”
Anna Jameson
“If he does still have captaincy aspirations he had better join the queue, because I am not planning on going anywhere just yet.”
Ricky Ponting
