Quotes: aspiration
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
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Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker
1813-1887
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (2014)
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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
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His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
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Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family.
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Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker
1813-1887
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the ''woman of wax'' whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
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The concept is always clothed with emotion, that is to say, with hope, or with fear, or with hatred, or with eager aspiration.
Source: Modes of thought (1938)
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The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.
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The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.
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Anthony Robbins
American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach
1960-
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
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