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.

Success should be an ambition within the parameters of Purpose.

If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance.

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

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.