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Quotes About Aspiration

The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.
~ Therese of Lisieux
I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.
~ Thomas Wolfe
God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.
~ Georges Bataille
Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.
~ C. J. Mahaney
It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.
~ Ernest Sosa
I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.
~ Joan Van Ark
Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.
~ Malala Yousafzai
Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness).
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.
~ William Ellery Channing
One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
~ Unknown
If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.
~ Vladimir Putin
My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.
~ William Merritt Chase
Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
~ Meher Baba
I've only had one dramatic role in my entire career and when I did it, I was in heaven and I thought, 'Oh my god, I'm going to get more of these.'
~ Jennifer Coolidge
As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."
~ Andrew Davies
I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.
~ Anthony Bourdain
George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
~ Bailey Chase
Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day after partridges, or a little rubber ball? wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?
~ D. H. Lawrence
With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?
~ Swami Vivekananda
Oh no. Oh God. I couldn't possibly be so stupid." "Don't limit yourself. You can be anything you wish.
~ Tessa Dare
I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.
~ Vidya Balan
God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.
~ Lucy Larcom
Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'
~ Marianne Williamson