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have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal- The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.Frederick William Robertson
- As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.M. Cartmill
- If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.Cicero
- To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.Kahlil Gibran
- Yet I do not aspire to being very wise, for I have noticed that the happiest people are those who do not let their brains oppress them.Baum, L. Frank -- The Emerald City of Oz
- Be well assured, I aspire to more than gratitudeDumas, Alexandre -- The Man in the Iron Mask
- Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
- To aspire unto the crown and reign as king.Shakespeare, William -- King Henry VI, Part 3
- All our family did not aspire as high as royalty.Cooper, James Fenimore -- Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
- Oh, I have done a little sailoring myself—as much as a woman can aspire to, you know.Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- Beyond the City
- I've longed so to sing in the Sunday-school choir, as Diana does, but I feared it was an honor I could never aspire to.Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne Of Green Gables
- Jesse Ferrenby, the man who in college had borne off the crown that he had aspired to.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- Helene, their daughter, is nineteen now Short-haired, petite, an aspiring violinist.Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
- His voice aspired to sternness and crumbled into be-seechment.Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
- Lust is but a bloody fire, Kindled with unchaste desire, Fed in heart, whose flames aspire, As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher.William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place.Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
- Jaime watched from the foot of the table, thinking of all those lords who aspired to a seat on the king's small council.George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
- Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- Oh, high aspiring, rainbowed jet!Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- Maria Jane was just nineteen years old, an art major and aspiring painter at North Carolina State in Raleigh.James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls