“I try to be that inspiration, you know. It’s not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it’s not. People don’t have to be afraid of it; they don’t have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.”

I feel like that’s where your success comes from. Once you get that big head, it’s over. You feel like you can’t be stopped.

Staying humble is the only way you can be great.

I’ve been the same guy since day one. No matter how successful I am in life, I’m going to stay true to myself and stay humble and grounded.

For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything’s not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease.

When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…

Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

The courageous girl I write about is the girl I aspire to be.

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

f you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God’s sake.

We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.