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You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them.

You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them.

Brian Tracy (1996). “Advanced Selling Strategies: The Proven System of Sales Ideas, Methods, and Techniques Used by Top Salespeople”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.79, Verso

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.17, BookBaby

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

"A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected".

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.424, Cengage Learning EMEA

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.180

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.203

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

James Russell Lowell (1872). “Among my Books: Contents: Dryden. Witchcraft. Shakespeare once more. New England two centuries ago. Lessing. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists”, p.233

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

"James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

"Iain Duncan Smith vows to tackle 'absurd' welfare dependency", www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2010.

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.800, Jazzybee Verlag

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.