It is the age of ambition that proves the mettle of men

Already a congressman, to a mentor “I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

If you scared, say you scared, and if not then push yourself off of that wall and step into the darkness. That’s where success is, get up out of that comfort zone, you’ll be surprised...

People – running from unhappiness, hiding in power – are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

Early morning mist ghosted along the Orm, trailing above the water, rising and twisting. Wide and sleek and almost silent, the river curled through the valley, curved almost to the doors of the stone-terraced cottages...

Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for...

The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say ‘Thou...

Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds for advancement. Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the...

Hosting games in the next event is the maximum ambition that any country that loves baseball could have.

Ambition: it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, ‘You will be famous.’ “The seed was planted. Ambition fed on the compost of my vanity.

Over and over we lose this sense of feeling we are wholly in our skins by means already named as well as through extended duress. Those who toil too long without respite are also at...

I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

Find your passion and live it!

CRP has a good earning capacity, and it is our ambition to improve it further. Its order backlog for 2006 is at a good level and we believe the market will be strong over the...

I don’t think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can’t do everything.

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

Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have ‘a dream’ sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.

What do you mean I have to wait for someone’s approval? I’m someone. I approve. So I give myself permission to move forward with my full support!

The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.

Success come only through high ambition, good guidance, strong will, determining and effort.

Don’t sit up nights thinking about making me president for that will never come and I have no ambition in that direction. Any party which would nominate me would make a great mistake.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.

My dreams and ambitions kept me company on the way there, and despair and regret were passengers on my return trip. I should have ridden a horse and not bothered with all that.

You’re just making difficulties and problems all the time. Isn’t your continued work in the civil service important to you? After all, you won’t be able to continue working with us this way. Don’t you...

To live in the shadow of another person…to desire to be adored as that person is….is the weakest ambition of all. Find yourself. Be loved as yourself.

May you find grace to accomplish your God given-goals.

It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them.

Somewhere between what is…and what can be…begs the question…what are you meant to be?

Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.

Step into the future with focus knowing that the only way to kill your dream is trying to find another.

Your problem is in thinking the sky’s the limit. Why set limits?

The map? I will first make it.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.

Big houses are not build by big or powerful men but rather by ambitious and determined men. Their achievements make them big/powerful men

Si las mujeres de esta familia no hubieran sido tan estúpidas y los hombres tan ambiciosos, se habrían ahorrado años de dolor.

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same

Even if we’ve never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church—even if we have, and vowed never to go back—deep down in our striving hearts, beneath all the ambition and the fear,...

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

There is no friendship between kings.

Do not be afraid to pursue your God-given goals.