By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to...

It is no secret that the Palestinian people have the ambition that these negotiations will enable them to live in their own independent state with the boundaries of June 4, 1967, and with its capital...

Never give up. It’s like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can’t do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue...

She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. ‘Time’ for her isn’t something to fight against....

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph...

I stand behind that record totally, and I always want Madonna to do well, … but the Mount Everest of ambition for me would be to have a William Orbit record top the charts. If...

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive.

you think I am going to give up now? I’m so close.

When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to...

Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? My hopes of being numbered in the band who have merged all ambitions in the glorious one of...

There’s sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren’t being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

But he’s got vision, and he’s got tremendous ambition. He wants to make the greatest film ever made.

Don’t ever permit any level of accomplishments to slow down your drive to win.

Your Heart’s Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.

[I]t occurred to me that 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.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Do the work in your unique style.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

You shouldn’t do that,” said Laura. “You could set yourself on fire.

The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable...

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...