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I’m a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it’s never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

I’m nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.

Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brew;The magical spell to your dreams coming true.

I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old…drunk on wine and...

I’d be glad to go out on a limb with thoseWho want nothing beyond what the wind bestows,Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bearNever being done grasping for light and air

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have...

Housewife: a position requiring great ambition to fill. Must have the determination to scrub mold, the good taste to distribute a checking account, and the good will to repeat this at a maid service or...

[I raise a brow at the speed and seeming exactitude of his ambition.] Well, maybe four years, … As long as I don’t allow myself to get distracted I think that’s possible. If I keep...

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they’ve always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.

Why do I do anything?’ she says. ‘I’m educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I’m so smart I can negate any dream.

We can do something truly exceptional … something that demands a new standard of imagination and ambition.

The piercing fanfare of the brass against the brutal boom and rattle of the drums surged through the air. At the head of the Ferris band marched the drum majorette. A crimson and white shako...

All I know is that I’ve wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I’d get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don’t want it anymore,...

If you can dream it, you can make it a reality. The possibility lies in your ability, enthusiasm and hardwork to realise it.

Your past success is a foundation into future success.

There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money....

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

…ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know…

Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.

Liverpool are his dream club. If I’d refused him this opportunity of fulfilling his ambition, it would not have been good for him or City.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

People won’t respect you until you achieve the respectable goals.

I played very well today – I made every putt. My ambition is to finish the year in the top 10. To do that, I will have to win another tournament this year, maybe here.

Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable...

If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.

Live for each second without hesitation

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people...

Fiction’s essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on...

You have to be enthusiastic enough to do what is required for achieving your dreams and goals.

You will know how far you can go, when you pursue your passion and never stop trying.

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I’m still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations; but the man of understanding in his own actions.

Ambition is greed without makeup.

My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Desires and wishes don’t lead to success. Plans and efforts do. Create a vision, chalk out an action plan, put in your best efforts and give yourself a headstart in achieving your dreams.

Miss Tick sniffed. ‘You could say this advice is priceless,’ she said. ‘Are you listening?”Yes,’ said Tiffany.’Good. Now … if you trust in yourself …”Yes?”… and believe in your dreams …”Yes?”… and follow your star...

There comes a time in everyone’s life—and I do mean in everyone’s life—when you ask yourself what it is that you’ve been doing with your life. Sometimes you even realize that whatever you’ve been doing...

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

Yes the truth is that men’s ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power...

Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she’s painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there’s a low sky.