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.