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Quotes About Aspiration

There is no hope without endeavor.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.
~ Adolf Hitler
I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.
~ Bill Gates
Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
~ Edwin A. Abbott
You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.
~ Gary Oldman
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
~ Immanuel Kant
I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
~ Jackie Chan
What you hope for, you also fear.
~ Alice Walker
The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration.
~ Paul Brunton
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
~ W. H. Auden
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.
~ Bertrand Russell
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
~ Samuel Johnson
If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.
~ Brian Tracy
Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.
~ Henry Wallich
I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.
~ Rupert Friend
Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.
~ Jerome Groopman
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
~ Ambrose Bierce
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
~ John Milton
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
~ James Laughlin
Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.
~ Nancy Astor
I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.
~ Ed McBain
I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.
~ Vaclav Havel
Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.
~ Sepp Blatter