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Aspire not to have more, but to be more.
Oscar Romero
Strive not to acquire more, but to be better.
2.
Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.
Denzel Washington
Strive not to make a living, but to make a mark.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Walter Pater
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Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
Mary Oliver
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Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
Althea Gibson
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I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
Sade Adu
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What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.
Don Williams
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So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st,
be an attentive listener.
Dale Carnegie
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I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.
Steve Reich
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Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.
James M. Kouzes
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Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?
Wale
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Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration.
Chris Oyakhilome
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We aspire to make artisanal tortillas on an industrial scale.
Steve Ells
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God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.
Orville Dewey
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
Henry David Thoreau
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We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.
Max Stirner
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Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.
George Foreman
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When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognized for it.
Neil Harbisson
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I don't mind being called a hairy, humourless lesbian because that is what I aspire to be.
Bridget Christie
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Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.
Mary Ruefle
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You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.
Stephen Bayley
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I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.
Lauren Conrad
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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
Pierre Corneille
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I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.
Christina Ricci
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India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I didn't aspire to write and never considered it as a career option.
Vantile Whitfield
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Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.
Jean Ingelow
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All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.
Nicolas Cage
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Always aspire to become the next you, not someone else
Prabal Gurung
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It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.
Jeremy Grantham
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Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.
Yann Martel
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Women in the 1950s were so much sexier. That's what I aspire to look like.
Kelly Brook
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I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.
Brooke Burke