Aspire Quotes

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there.

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

Women in the 1950s were so much sexier. That's what I aspire to look like.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.