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No spirited mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength; it has impulses beyond its power of achievement. — Michel De Montaigne

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength. — Michel De Montaigne

Just another little piece of utterly irrelevant history, aspiring to permanence, doomed to oblivion. — Tommy Wallach

The Ukrainian people should not be coerced. Make no mistake: the US stands together with the Ukrainians aspiring for democracy. — John F. Kerry

To be in the association of those aspiring to love God is the ultimate gift of God. — Radhanath Swami

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. — Edward Carpenter

Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you. — Multatuli

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. — Gene Weingarten

You do not have to feel truer than others in order to be original.
You just need to be different and keep aspiring to be a better you. — Toba Beta

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. — Harriet Martineau

There's just one advice for an aspiring writer; write. — Sci Furz

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living. — Shekhar Kapur

Stop aspiring. Start doing. — Nathan Lowell

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. — Tom Robbins

A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself. — Pema Chodron

Don't whine to your spouse about your daily troubles. He's had a harder day providing for you and your children. This is what you're aspiring to? — Lindsey Leavitt-Going Vintage

A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film. — Ricky Gervais

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell. — Keith Hernandez

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema. — Anurag Kashyap

I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO. — Angela Ahrendts

Aspirations forms the plot of success. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn. — Jacques Barzun

Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line. — Joseph Conrad

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. — Michael Moore

Life waits patiently for true heroes. It is dangerous when those aspiring to be heroes cannot wait until they find themselves. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister. — Alexander Downer

Real beauty comes from confidence and being who you are, not aspiring to look or be someone else. — Philip DeFranco

Make your life an inspiring story meant to be read in bed during a sleepless night of despair. — Debasish Mridha

Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then. — Nicholas Jarecki

They had become unofficial mentors to the two aspiring teenage journalists, — John Feinstein

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

the struggle for an abolitionist democracy is aspiring to create the institutions that will truly allow for a democratic society. What — Angela Y. Davis

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. — Major Taylor

For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness. — Pema Chodron

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity. — Rebecca Mead

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect. — Erica Schroeder

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists. — Sunny

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part. — Olivia Wilde

Don't stop aspiring. Just learn to duck. . . — Leif Herrgesell

We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. — Lauryn Hill

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity. — Joanna Baillie

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily. — Diablo Cody

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep. — Tina Brown

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity. — Meagan Good

But she was one of those skanky skanks who looked cool. Who worked her skankedness. Who made skankdom something you'd consider aspiring to. — Kristen Ashley

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things. — Charles Dudley Warner

Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness. — Sri Chinmoy

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance. — Arianna Huffington

Ex-jocks, like all jocks, never back down from a good fight. Jocks are alphas (or betas, aspiring) and animals. — A.D. Aliwat

I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator. — Augusto Pinochet

An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes. — Sri Chinmoy

For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time. — Lilly Singh

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date. — Susan Orlean

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism. — Talcott Parsons

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor. — Edna Buchanan

The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer. — Renata Scotto

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper. — Victoria Laurie

It is impossible to know nature is because that which is perceived to be nature is only the idea of nature aspiring in each person's mind. — Joseph P. Kauffman

Amazon was a family affair in another way. MacKenzie, an aspiring novelist, — Brad Stone

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis. — Howard Gordon

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money. — Martin Parr

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. — Clarice Lispector

Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being. — Bryant McGill

Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you! — Bryant McGill

Precious and spacious
The aspiring heart has to remain
Always. — Sri Chinmoy

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom. — Alexander Lebedev

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness — Leo Tolstoy

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that. — John Legend

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer. — Tom Conrad

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within. — Tory Burch

Success and nothing less, fly high or don't fly at all ... — Nanley Losier

The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,As streams meander level with their fount. — Robert Montgomery

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it usually aspiring gangsta rappers who set such store by designer labels? — Lynne Truss

Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word! — R.C. Sproul

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss. — Plato

Hey, you, aspiring writer, stop aspiring and start WRITING already! — Ksenia Anske

Aspiring Asimovs! — Brandon Sanderson

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review. — William Kennedy

Plays ... Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa! — Tom Stoppard

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it. — F. Paul Wilson

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer. — Anne Fortier

A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built. — Swami Vivekananda

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it. — Colley Cibber

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. — Fran Lebowitz

There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model. — Linda Ronstadt

You will need seed money, so begin saving for your book. Don't give up. Also, write down the ideas that you have right away so you don't lose them. — Soraya Diase Coffelt

Every obstacle must at first be put in the path of the aspiring artist. For it is only those whom you cannot discourage who are worth encouraging. — Harold Speed

Summer-we all have seen-
A few of us-believed-
A few the more aspiring
Unquestionably loves ... — Emily Dickinson

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others. — Mahatma Gandhi

Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace. — Charlene Spretnak

Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every week, I take two phone calls or meetings with an aspiring producer or director. — Charlie Ebersol

Habits are infinitely more beneficial to the aspiring student than motivation. Motivation may get you started, but habits keep you going. — Chris Matakas

My advice to aspiring writers is to read more, write more, and network more. More, more, and more. Then, after you've done all that, do it some more. — Jarod Kintz

I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not. — Jake Black