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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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"Prospect is often better than possession."
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"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change."
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"The aspiration to attain goals overcomes death."
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"I don't like regressing - I move beyond. Life belongs to the future and I believe in creating History rather than visiting and revisiting the past."
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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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"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals."
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"What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living."
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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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"I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky."
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"My expectations for the future? A beautiful past."
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"When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles."
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"Let your dreams be a manifestation of your vision."
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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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"What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it."
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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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"When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it."
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"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not."
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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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"Each of us has the ability to dream."
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"Follow your dreams, not the crowd."
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"Don't settle for ordinary. Dare to live a magical life."
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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 lonely road to greatness is better than the crowded road to mediocrity."
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"I was planning to remain an amateur for a while."
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"Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs."
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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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"I aspired to be the better me of my future."
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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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"Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility."
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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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"Every wheel wish to be the wheel of a car, and not of just another vehicle."
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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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"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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"Let your dreams keep you hopeful!"
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"Don't settle for a star when you can have the whole sky."
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"I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all."
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"You should have hopes. Hopes to nourish the courage that helps get success in life."
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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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"Life ahead is full of endless opportunities."
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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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"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
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