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Aspiration Quotes
"Staring at the mountain requires nothing. Climbing the mountain requires strength. Reaching the mountaintop requires perseverance. Staying at the mountaintop requires wisdom. Reaching for the stars requires everything."
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"What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!"
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"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals."
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"You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky."
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"Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs."
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"New York is more than a state of mind. It is the completion of a dream. ['New York at arm's length of desire']"
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"Follow your dreams, not the crowd."
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"I was planning to remain an amateur for a while."
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"When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it."
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"I aspired to be the better me of my future."
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"I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that."
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"My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university."
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"The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth."
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"To dream only of what is 'possible' is to be fooled into believing that one is dreaming in the first place."
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"What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties."
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"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
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"Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing."
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"The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford."
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"We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own."
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"The aspiration to attain goals overcomes death."
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"I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point."
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"The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that."
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"Every wheel wish to be the wheel of a car, and not of just another vehicle."
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"Let your dreams be a manifestation of your vision."
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"When you dream of what you want to see, whether in your life, home, community or nation, you need to keep watching those dreams until they come to fulfillment."
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"To give your dream an honest try, is to persist and persevere for however long that it would take for it to meet its point of reality."
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"Don't settle for a star when you can have the whole sky."
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"Life ahead is full of endless opportunities."
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"I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all."
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"The lonely road to greatness is better than the crowded road to mediocrity."
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"Don't settle for ordinary. Dare to live a magical life."
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"You too could strive, thrive, and become as great or even greater than the people that you admire."
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"Life is beautiful dream."
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"We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else."
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"Let your dreams keep you hopeful!"
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"You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person."
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"Each of us has the ability to dream."
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"Prospect is often better than possession."
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"We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies."
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"My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty."
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"Aim for the stars, and afterward, pass them."
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"He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line."
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"Dream big, but stay humble."
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"Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility."
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"The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve."
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"What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living."
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"Move on, sky is not limit, wind can touch you, water can dip you, mother will care you, wife will nurture you and above all, oneday you will see your child following, up above the sky; you became a star, twinkling, watching and waiting to come back again, on earth."
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