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...

Modern wife: A position thought to require great ambition to fill. After initially showing some skill at a maid service or department store, the husband takes her home to find that she has risen too...

Whether you seek the prettiest rose despite the size of its thorns or praise a mediocre plant for the sake of its thorns, the plant’s beauty remains subjective.

At the end, we will arrive where we started.

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill’s sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

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.

We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It’s almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have...

Gavin creates a nice link between last year’s squad and what we are doing this year. His ambition, energy and passion for the game will be a valuable asset to the Timbers and to the...

Big results require big ambitions.

Mother Dear, one day I’m going to turn this world upside down.”–From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

Recognise and reach out to the inherent great power within you.

Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and therefore, not geniuses. One can understand him by thinking of the tremendous intensity with which he tried...

You could never understand why I grind like I doMakiyah & Jalani why I grind like I do

In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian’s terms, I gave up on life, gave up on...

Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.

… while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn’t...

The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have, is to so live, and so improve himself in heart and brain, as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest...

We will not lower the level of ambition of the round. If necessary we may lower the level of expectation for Hong Kong,

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

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...

A driving ambition is of little use if you’re on the wrong road

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.

In the days when I was ambitious I worked out a very pretty little plan for conquering the whole earth and rearranging things as they ought to be; and when, in the end, everything became...

Here you can easily understand the futility of ambitions and achievements, futility of success and failures, futility of wealth and possessions.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions(…)if one has failed...

It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter.

Today’s politicians are like policemen on traffic duty. They are just dealing with traffic right in front of them. Yet they want to be the Superintendent based on that alone. The politicians and the bigwigs...

The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.

Get better acquainted with yourself, and understand the burning ambitions that dwell within. Be brave enough to follow these. They’re your dreams. Follow your dreams. They are your purpose – your purpose will fulfil you....

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.

If I refused him this opportunity of fulfilling his ambition it would not be good for him or Manchester City Football Club.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The...