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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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"The lonely road to greatness is better than the crowded road to mediocrity."
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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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"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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"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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"Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs."
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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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"The aspiration to attain goals overcomes death."
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"I was planning to remain an amateur for a while."
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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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"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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"Don't settle for ordinary. Dare to live a magical life."
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"Let your dreams be a manifestation of your vision."
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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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"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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"You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky."
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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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"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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"Every wheel wish to be the wheel of a car, and not of just another vehicle."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land."
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"Let your dreams keep you hopeful!"
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"Dream big, but stay humble."
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"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
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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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"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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"Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility."
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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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"The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve."
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"A dream is always risky, for there is a price to pay."
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"I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all."
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"What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living."
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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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