Aspiring Quotes

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)
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. View quote
Cicero
If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin. View quote
Samuel Adams
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. View quote
Jim Harrison
Harry Dresden: But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are. View quote
Jim Butcher
Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors. ... History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse. View quote
Rudy Giuliani
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. View quote
Clarice Lispector
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven. View quote
George Chapman
I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator. View quote
Augusto Pinochet
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward. (Lydia Sigourney)
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being. View quote
Sergei Eisenstein
The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it. View quote
Colley Cibber
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. View quote
Albert Einstein
No one has ever asked me to give a graduation speech. But in my years of working with aspiring entrepreneurs, many of them in college, I've gotten used to giving advice. View quote
Marc Randolph
There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period. View quote
Matthew Reilly
It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing. View quote
John Boyne
I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom. View quote
Alexander Lebedev
I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although that certainly helps for aspiring music supervisors. View quote
Alexandra Patsavas
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written. View quote
Ally Carter
Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment. (Chris Sarandon)
My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect. View quote
James Lafferty
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. View quote
John Legend
Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell. View quote
Keith Hernandez
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. View quote
Major Taylor