The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

Alice knows those stories. The routiers and condottieri of the Free Companies, who fight the wars of whichever prince will pay their fees, and amuse themselves in between times, are said to commit every kind...

In any organization men would move up from the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

…it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.

There is something I want to do. But it’s something to work towards, not something that should be handed to me on a plate. What’s the point of doing something if you know you’ve got...

I love living in the ghetto!” #PoorMindSet

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

I wish he had even half Napolean’s height in ambition. Maybe then he could stand taller and be proud.

The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and...

It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.

Every victory won was first won spiritually!

Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert,for he has only himself to sustain and none but his god to please, but I consider poverty to...

Yes, but the artist?” said Nigel almost fiercely. “He’s different, you know he is. He’s driven by some compulsion: if he can’t do what he knows he has to do with his life he might...

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.

We had a few good runs with Forest. It was a burning ambition of mine to be the captain who said to Brian Clough ‘here is the FA Cup’. Unfortunately, we didn’t quite manage it.

I want to live simply. I want to sit by the window when it rains and read books I’ll never be tested on. I want to paint because I want to, not because I’ve got...

Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content!Farewell the plumed troop and the big warsThat make ambition virtue!

A writer’s ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years’ time and for one reader in a hundred years’ time.

It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with.

I think the level of ambition of this piece is something that attracted all of us, … doing something in a genre where you can deal with supernatural elements, but really see them through the...

Having a Great Ambition is also a Meditation. When our efforts are focussed sincerely, even during sleep, our brains will work on it, in the form of Dreams.

I fall asleepCall it deep while all is well be-Cause my life seems like a freestyle mean-While asleep on the couch I dream it’s a written piece and nowThe symphony’s soundingShouting out to these feet...

Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it.

Life will hack off your head and shit down your neck every chance it gets. I’ve found that consuming drugs and booze, listening to music and always having an excuse in the best way to...

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

Minor talents or failing talents ask much of those who associate with them. They suck, they cling, they sour, they devour, and they can kill their hosts. Disappointment is a deadly companion. We didn’t yet...

It’s a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

True ambition is trying to paint yourself out of a corner

Put work into your dreams.

This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing...

College was to teach me that I was one of life’s journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

…you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

I don’t care much whether I ever get to know anything – but I want to work out something in figures – something that hasn’t got to do with human beings. I don’t want people...

In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior...

Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you asleep are nightmares.

She knows about the music stuff, but she doesn’t care. That’s why I didn’t tell her about my job at the studio. She doesn’t want make me want to be better, like you do. She...

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.

I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.

To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most...

In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman’s perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters;...

We are surrounded by adversity but we shall triumph because we have a greater spirit

I am on a mission, I will depend on a greater power to accomplish the task.

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the...

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

At the end of the day let there be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.