Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs...

Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision.

Let your ambitions fly. Let nothing hold you back.

I believe we are powerful, but we don’t use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some...

At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

A dream is not what you see when you sleep. It is what keeps you from falling asleep.

The only candid thing in life is time, nothing else flows seamlessly

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith–contentment with a lowly place. I am a doctor and I know that ambition–the desire to succeed–to have power–leads to most ills...

Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid...

The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.

…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always bent on duty, trudging after Ruin, maddening, blinding Ruin. But Ruin is strong...

The door is crackedWe used to meetlike water does landnonot thatmore like when skin touches skinkissing fingertipsor when air escapes a lung and is felt across the worldI’ve leapt over cracks in sidewalksand swallowed away...

That’s what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.

Oh, it’s delightful to have ambitions. I’m so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them– that’s the best of it. Just as soon as you attain...

We are capable beyond measure. Go all out and be the great person, you are destiny to be.

Ambition is the death of joy.

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

The visions of a healthy brain,Give us pleasure over and again;For this home was done,From the daytime dreams of one.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

When I interviewed at Yale, the admissions committee asked me why they should let me into the program. I looked at them unblinking and said, ‘Because I’m going to change the world some day. And...

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we...

A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth...

What’s important is the ambition that results from our weakness.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Ich werde nicht alles erreichen, was ich will, aber ich werde alles probieren, was ich kann.

Potential is an excuse to procrastinate;Ambition is a means to thrive.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs

I haven’t got ambitions. Actually, I’m determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

A longing for the extraordinary had grabbed ahold of her and was burning her up inside, so hot and fierce that her heart had gone stone cold toward everything and everybody standing in her way....

Il y avait des hommes si ambitieux qu’ils auraient torché les chefs, pour les entendre seulement dire merci.

He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne.

Your thoughts and your words define your life. Think positively and affirm positive words to enrich your life positively.

Book buying habits; I can afford to live without food and save the money to a book.

The only way the weight of the world can break you down, is if you carry it the wrong way.

Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I’ve been known to...

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

Success should be an ambition within the parameters of Purpose.

If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance.

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

We have no shortage of capacity and we are not planning to take any of it out. Our ambition is to make our plants efficient wherever they are.

Money as the sole ambition has no value.

As she sustained wound after wound…the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen.

I have two masters: laziness and ambition. Laziness is muscular, and ambition is brainy. When the two masters fight it out, guess who wins? That’s right, the slaves do.