One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates… This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and...

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.

I’m a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there’s not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because...

Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else’s desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.

From the very beginning Ihad felt a definite contact with Yeamon, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn...

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

If a man does not work passionately – even furiously – at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.

The more you read the Bible, the more transform your life will be.

You are the only person that can create the future you want.

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

And the next time I did school stuff in the middle of the night, I just did it in my closet with the door locked. Honestly, what is wrong with this country when striving for...

The successes and failures of yesterday are gone, today is a new day.

A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for the first time of my novel, abandoned, all these years, and...

The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other.

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously...

Let people stick to their philosophy, you stick to your passion.

The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.

This time Elizabeth Ann didn’t answer, because she herself didn’t know what the matter was. But I do, and I’ll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing...

If you are not working towards something, your life will end with nothing.

Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent.

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

…I wanted to remove,my diamond earrings,for I felt they were,weighing a little heavy.I wanted to remove my heels,for I felt they were,taking me a little,above the ground,than I needed to be.I wanted to,throw away my...

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: ‘Be realistic!'”[What It Is (2009)]

Within you lies your strength.

Is he running purely because of personal ambition, or is he the head of a movement? … We remember the heads of movements.

I am fulfilling my destiny.

I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I saw others experiencing it too, many denying, by the way, that any such...

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers (lovers of wisdom), and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond...

You can’t achieve what you can’t imagine being done

We can’t all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddling our way toward frugality, simplicity, liberty, community, until some kind of sane and rational balance is achieved between...

A lot of people in the automotive industry thought he’d sort of exited through the back door when he took the job at Linde, but he showed that it was a very well-organized company and...

A brick could make everything better for me. Now, if I could only find a way to get my hands on one. But it’s a silly dream, because I don’t have the ambition to get...

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.

He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he...

You see what I am driving at. The mentally handicapped do not have a consciousness of power. Because of this perhaps their capacity for love is more immediate, lively and developed than that of other...

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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.