Top 60 Aspiration Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Aspiration Quotes from famous people such as Prabhas, Flora Lewis, Jeremy Miller, Tony Kushner, Paulo Freire, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I have no political aspiration.

I have no political aspiration.
Prabhas
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn’t alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
Flora Lewis
My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That’s my aspiration.
Jeremy Miller
As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.
Tony Kushner
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.
Paulo Freire
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.
Li Peng
I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I’m enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor – it’s my aspiration – so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!
Daniel Radcliffe
The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
Theodor W. Adorno
My biggest aspiration is to inspire people to do good. I believe that our wish for a harmonious world begins and ends with doing good. To inspire and empower people to focus on goodness, I wrote a new book called ‘Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World through Doing Good.’
Shari Arison
I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.
Sonia Sotomayor
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.
Mario Vargas Llosa
When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn’t go beyond that aspiration at that point.
Anna Sui
The difference between a child’s aspiration and that family’s situation, is the exact measurement of that family’s frustrations.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.
DeForest Kelley
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Kurt Lewin
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
Ori Gersht
I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.
George Osborne
That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.
Peter Jurasik
Although, at times, soccer is a challenge to mind, body, and spirit, fundamentally, the progression of the U.S. women’s game and those who play it reflects a distinctively American culture, rooted in our struggle, shared aspiration, hard work and self-determination.
Ali Krieger
My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.
Mario Monti
No matter if we’re in a contentious situation or simply engaging in an everyday interaction, we should aspire to have the strength to be kind always. If each of us shared this aspiration, we’d all be better off.
Daniel Lubetzky
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
James Allen
When you talk about being exceptional, you do two things: You clearly answer the question ‘Who are you?’ which is your purpose. And you answer the second question, ‘Where are you going?’ which is your aspiration and how you’re going to get there.
Punit Renjen
Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.
Frank Gaffney
Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It’s a process.
Ruby Dee
Implementing universal suffrage for the 2017 election is a big step forward along our road to democracy. This is not only a solemn commitment of the central authorities to Hong Kong but also the aspiration shared by seven million Hong Kong people.
Carrie Lam
Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.
Li Peng
The notion of law enforcement as professional, not political, began developing as an aspiration and an ethos even while, in practice, the FBI was the personal fiefdom of J. Edgar Hoover.
Benjamin Wittes
The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people – that the church succeed – because it will be good for society.
Blase J. Cupich
‘Saw’ really came from that want, the aspiration to make a feature film on our own.
James Wan
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tr

I’ve been playing piano my whole life, but I’d never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you’d loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.
Caio Fonseca
Aspiration, opportunity, and a stake in society are things which combine education, decent healthcare and the fruits of a capitalist system where individuals contribute to society, while also pursuing their natural inclination to improve their lot in life.
Kwasi Kwarteng
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing
Kobe Bryant is one of those guys I never imagined being on the same court with. It was always an aspiration.
Channing Frye
Duryodhan was a prince fighting for his throne. He was powered by ambition and aspiration. Parshuram is godly. His fight is against injustice at a larger societal level. I’ve enjoyed playing both the characters.
Puneet Issar
It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
Michael Harrington
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
Manuel Puig
I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn’t matter what you look like to play it.
Fred Melamed
The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that.
George Will
Our aspiration must be to reform, upgrade and enlarge our education system – and to make it relevant to 21st century realities of the digital economy, genomics, robotics and automation.
Ram Nath Kovind
The t-shirts that declare ‘Girls Rule the World’ offer an empirical falsehood, but at least the aspiration is there.
Faith Salie
But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.
Tim Scott
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child’s peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.
Steven Pinker
The power of a person derives not from the office he occupies but from a clear sense of direction and aspiration and from a willingness to struggle for his ways and beliefs.
Ariel Sharon
Our aspiration is to be a holistic support system or lifestyle solution for people who are interested in being open and connected.
Miguel McKelvey
Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
Iain Duncan Smith
My view is the core engine supporting India’s growth aspiration will be the financial sector, which will have to get more efficient.
Uday Kotak
My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That’s hard. Then you start doubting every sentence you write.
Rutger Bregman
The Arab Spring is a true phenomenon. Embrace Arab Spring; embrace the aspiration for freedom of the people of Egypt, Syria, and Yemen.
Jamal Khashoggi
Hope is in some respects a thing more brilliant, more vivifying, than fruition. What we have looked forward to with eager and earnest aspiration is never in all respects equal to the picture we had formed of it. The very uncertainty enhances the enjoyment.
William Godwin
Peace is a very poor aspiration. Unfortunately, even so-call spiritual leaders are going about saying that the ultimate goal of life is to find peace. Peace is a fundamental requirement. Why are you making it as the last thing in your life? It must be the first thing that happens to you.
Jaggi Vasudev
My aspiration isn’t to be famous; it’s to design clothes. If that gets me attention at the end of the day, cool.
Sofia Richie
Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.
Simon Winchester
Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.
Christine Pelosi
Imagine the privilege the Lord has given us of sustaining His prophet, whose counsel will be untainted, unvarnished, unmotivated by any personal aspiration, and utterly true!
Russell M. Nelson