#aspiration

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#achieve #any #aspirations #harmony #higher

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#atheism #only #real #real religion #religion

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#aspirations #because #film #had #high

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children. ↗

— Mark Sanford

#children #families #meager #means #needs

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#drop #people #tell #their #them

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point. ↗

— Anna Sui

#beyond #business #clothes #concerts #designing

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist. ↗

— Vannevar Bush

#changes #good #men #persist #scene

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one ↗

— John Lennon

#dreams #idealism #nationalism #peace #religion

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#men

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago? ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#anyone #aspirations #away #decades #denied