Aspiration Perspiration Quotes

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. ~ Evan Esar

Science is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. ~ Albert Einstein

Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes. ~ Carole King

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration! ~ Thomas A. Edison

Inspiration is like perspiration. It tends to strike at the most inopportune of times. ~ Max Hawthorne

If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. ~ Susan Cain

Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration. ~ Johnny Miller

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration. ~ Roald Dahl

Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. ~ Thomas A. Edison

Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation. ~ Bill Bright

Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. ~ Vladislav Rastorotsky

Gardening requires lots of water ... most of it in the form of perspiration. ~ Louise Erickson

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many. ~ James Russell Lowell

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics. ~ Manuel Puig

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself. ~ Kevin Powers

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore. ~ Tom Courtenay

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations. ~ Eric Hoffer

One aspiration and thousand aspirants fighting to make their place. ~ Parul Wadhwa

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane. ~ Rosie O'Donnell

Repentance is another name for aspiration. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

All language is an aspiration to music. ~ Steve Almond

If we want kids with 'aspiration', we need to give them something to aspire to. ~ Owen Jones

Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health. ~ Orison Swett Marden

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

My aspiration was always to be a fashion editor. ~ Nina Garcia

You have to create tension between reality and aspiration ~ Sumantra Ghoshal

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer ... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine. ~ Walter Kirn

It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered. ~ Michael Harrington

I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration. ~ Jack Reed

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man. ~ DeForest Kelley

Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action. ~ Christine Pelosi

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. ~ Kurt Lewin

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

All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it. ~ David Emerald Womeldorff

Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run. ~ Lidia Yuknavitch

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it. ~ Fred Melamed

The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is. ~ George Osborne

True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement. ~ Nur Sakinah Thomas

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration. ~ John Morley

Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first. ~ Kirkpatrick Sale

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. ~ Joseph Conrad

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mother Ganges teaches us that if we want to attain the sea of our aspiration, we must persevere in our goal and never be discouraged by the inevitable obstacles that come on our path. ~ Radhanath Swami

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Dreaming is one of humanity's greatest gifts - it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward. ~ Richard Branson

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. ~ Stephen Samuel Wise

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful. ~ Tom Hollander

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy. ~ Iain Duncan Smith

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety. ~ Benjamin Bratt

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives. ~ Rahm Emanuel

Hung verdict would have meant anger against previous govt; Clear verdict to BJP shows people voted for hope and aspiration. ~ Narendra Modi

The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure. ~ Sri Chinmoy

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted. ~ Harlan Coben

Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. ~ Frank Gaffney

Dance is about never-ending aspiration. ~ Judith Jamison

Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of sex. ~ Cynthia Ozick

You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal. ~ Rachel Ward

It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It's like an engine without fuel
can't get anywhere without it. Or like a lighthouse without a light on top
doesn't guide anyone in to home or safe harbor. ~ Robert Fanney

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes. ~ Tom Peters

We must each prepare ourselves for every good work that might come to us and then accept the principle that revelation, not aspiration, is the basis for our respective callings. ~ Monte J. Brough

I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better. ~ Kelly Sue DeConnick

After returning from his stint in the minors made reference to the movie Slapshot with: I'm happy to be back. It was never my aspiration as a kid to play in the Federal league. ~ Glenn Healy

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

That sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important ~ Hazel Blears

Tomorrow's leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don't sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan. ~ Denis Waitley

People who plead with you for favours
May eventually prove to be great flatterers.
Your friends are only those
Who all the time cheerfully support
Your heart's aspiration-flames. ~ Sri Chinmoy

I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you. ~ K.d. Lang

Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on. ~ John L'Heureux

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy! ~ Queen Victoria

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth. ~ Marilyn Manson

Desire for increased wealth is not evil ... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration. ~ Wallace D. Wattles

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration. ~ Jeremy Miller

Jamie liked perspiration, a little bit of dirt, and complications. ~ E.L. Konigsburg

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. ~ Charles Horton Cooley

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind. ~ Kofi Annan

As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will not surrender for it - now or ever. ~ Ronald Reagan

Writing is 10% inspiration,90% perspiration and 50% procrastination. ~ Lucky Stevens

The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within. ~ Edwin J. Delattre

The aspiration of society is the flourishing of its members, this report gives evidence on how to achieve societal well?being. It's not by money alone, but also by fairness, honesty, trust and good health. ~ Jeffrey Sachs

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration. ~ Kelly Bryson

A line of perspiration slipped down my spine like a waterslide at an unamusement park. ~ Michelle Rowen

The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally. ~ Stefan Collini

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration. ~ Julian Casablancas

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer. ~ Mike Greenberg

But, more than anything, in the more than three years of this Government's existence, the Israeli people has proven that it is possible to make peace, that peace opens the door to a better economy and society; that peace is not just a prayer. Peace is first of all in our prayers, but it is also the aspiration of the Jewish people, a genuine aspiration for peace. ~ Yitzhak Rabin

Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land. ~ Elaine Scarry

Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope. ~ Swami Vivekananda

Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world," I said, "but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be - it isn't a mirror, it's an aspiration. ~ Jasper Fforde

But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so. ~ Tim Scott

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties. ~ Nong Duc Manh

A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a conscious and definite will to form the child accordingly to the highest ideal she can conceive, but first and foremost having the aspiration to work on herself. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. ~ Flora Lewis

There's a poster with Thomas Edison's quote: GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION. ~ Lauren Oliver

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. ~ Napoleon Hill

Genius is not born. You make yourself a genius by imagination and perspiration. ~ Debasish Mridha

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. ~ Sri Aurobindo

Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries. ~ Li Peng

She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death. ~ Marguerite Duras

Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling. ~ Gabrielle Tozer