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to hope to be successful — especially in a career

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 gratitude
Dumas, 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
Maria Jane was just nineteen years old, an art major and aspiring painter at North Carolina State in Raleigh.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
Oh, high aspiring, rainbowed jet!
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
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

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