#aspiring

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within. ↗

— Tory Burch

#big #businesses #engaging #entrepreneurs #help

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. ↗

— John Legend

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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you are a writer. If you do not write: you are not. Aspiring is a meaningless null state that romanticizes Not Writing. It’s as ludicrous as saying, “I aspire to pick up that piece of paper that fell on the floor.” Either pick it up or don’t. I don’t want to hear about how your diaper’s full. Take it off or stop talking about it. ↗

— Chuck Wendig

#aspiring-writers #humor #humor

It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#aspiring #athletes #because #better #day

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at. ↗

— Ellen Terry

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Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

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With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

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