aspire quotes

For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And other its faith, and trimmed its fire, Showed me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire.

- Matthew Arnold
  Poems: Second Series,'Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse', l.67^70.

I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things asthey have mirrored themselves inmy mind.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
  Adam Bede, ch.17.

When you thinkof what I had, what else was there to aspire to?

- Nelson A(ldrich) Rockefeller
Of his lifelong ambition to be US President. Quoted in Michael Kramer and Sam Roberts I NeverWanted to beVice President of Anything (1976).