#aspirations

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

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Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

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It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces. ↗

— Alain de Botton

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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

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Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Vannevar Bush

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When all the kids answered "fireman", "dentist", "mother", "want to marry a rich guy" and "astronaut", mine was "rockstar" when we grow up. Half of that was met. I knew I wouldn't be happy with any other occupation that was not in the entertainment business. ↗

— Nona Sebastian

#rockstar #romance #business

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here. ↗

— Luci Swindoll

#curiosity #daring #inspirational #self-discovery #dreams