Aspire
To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality.
To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.
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Aspire Quotations
Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
Lady Gaga
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. Rowling
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Baltasar Gracian
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
Samuel Smiles
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.
Theodor Herzl
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen
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.
Marco Rubio
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.
Nicholas Sparks
Aspire Translations
aspire in Afrikaans is aansoek doen
aspire in French is aspirent, aspirer, aspirez, aspirons
aspire in German is aufstreben, streben, anstreben
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