We have no shortage of capacity and we are not planning to take any of it out. Our ambition is to make our plants efficient wherever they are.

Money as the sole ambition has no value.

As she sustained wound after wound…the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen.

I have two masters: laziness and ambition. Laziness is muscular, and ambition is brainy. When the two masters fight it out, guess who wins? That’s right, the slaves do.

Be bigger presence at work. Race up ladder (joyfully, w/smile on face), get raise. Get in best shape of life, start dressing nicer. Learn guitar? Make point of noticing beauty of world? Why not educate...

As though she were asking me where some sort of unusual wine could be obtained, she inquired fretfully and worriedly: ‘Jack, have you any idea where I could find some presentable loose women?’ I had...

Keep on exploring.Keep on evolving.Keep on experimenting.

You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well try what you do want.

Yet isn’t it all—all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga—exactly like that? And isn’t some of it a little bit more serious? For Sen. Clinton, something is true if it...

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way...

High and holy ambition–to be a saint–is not opposed to holy humility–total reliance on God’s grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov...

Thoughts are free, talk is cheap, and action is expensive. What’s your worth?

If you love another person, you have to become a no-self, a nothing. When you love, you have to become a nobody. When you are a nobody, love happens. If you remain somebody, love never...

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I’ll do that. I will be free.

To want something desperately, to be tested, to feel that life will be impossible if the object of one’s desires is not achieved, is always dangerous for the soul. Some people attempt to climb Everest...

He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and thrive. Not everyone needed the same driving ambition that had fueled him. That had led him...

I’m either going to be a writer or a bum.

I was never somebody who grew up going, ‘I really want to be a singer in a band,’ and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

My ambition is not to leave behind me a pile of money for my heirs to quarrel about, but to find out what there is of interest in this world before I cross the border...

Reaction timeTouch the underside of a penny you find on the streetDoesn’t feel any different unless you close your eyesI can taste the copper in my mouth nowseeping from between my teethThere’s an explanation I’m...

I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.

If it’s IN you to climb you must — there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills — they can’t breathe properly in the valleys.

FAILURE DENOTES:F – FallA – AriseI – Intuitive thinkingL – Learning processU – Undeterred soulR – Renew thoughtsE – Experiments new thinking.

Go realize your dreams.

Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.Who had nothing, who wanted everything.

After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle’s lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of...

Ambition is what gives birth to imagination and then imagination directs the bearing towards its pursuit.

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.

I don’t particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if your ambitions included being an absolute ruler tomorrow. There were subtleties. Oh, you could order men...

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.

I hate what you represent.”… “Power without conviction.” Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. “Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I’m the tree in the forest that silently falls–when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]

We’ve had enough.” He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. “We’ve had a bellyful, in fact.””And like everyone who’s had enough,” said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, “he wants...

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Having this, we want that.Owning some, we want more.Standing here, we wish to be there.If it’s impossible, we struggle to make it happen.Why are we like this? Why not be content with some, here, and...

With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild ‘wanderess’ ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me foolish and blind to where you find me now. The first time I...

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.