Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!

Isana laughed. “And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?”The lady smiled. “That’s a question rarely asked here at court.””And why is that?””Because a woman of conscience would tell you that...

Stay strong. Focus on the ultimate goal.

You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights. But any person who wants to make music, and doesn’t, is a goddamned...

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition’s hands.

Today I will work when others procrastinate, I will confront my fears when others hide from theirs, and I will create solutions when others find excuses; today I refuse to allow my enemies to out...

All I want in this life are three…a moonlit beach on the starlit sea,a breath of opium, and thee.

Author says he suffered from both “a craving to be famous” and “a horror of being known to like being known.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

The worst possible scenario would be to lower the ambition and try to do something on the cheap side. If you don’t have an appropriate result now, we’ll have to wait another 20 years to...

Ambition can form an impenetrable barrier for those who fail to acknowledge what they already are.

I played very well today I made every putt, … My ambition is to finish the year in the top 10. To do that, I will have to win another tournament this year, maybe here.

I don’t have the type of ambition that will make me do anything at any cost to get what I want. I don’t want to be beholden to people. I don’t want to open a...

If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.

Your little kettle will rattle in the battle; just put it on fire. Spark your ambitions with action and thing will change. Be like a warrior!

Ambition is a drug that turns it’s addicts into potential madmen.

I’ve always had high ambitions and aspirations.

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its...

The quest for learning is the quest for self-discovery.

You must fall in love with your job to own it.

Like overzealous religious converts, climbers originally from the lower rungs of society tend to go overboard when they ape the upper class.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon—a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deity—and gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare and nameless marble, where...

‘That Rusty,’ they say. ‘Charming and handsome,’ they say first, of course—they’re not blind. Then they add, ‘All the ambition and drive of a chocolate sundae.’

Peace is the first casualty in every ambition.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

A goal will always tell you where you don’t want to be.

The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another’s fame.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

My second wife left me because she said I was too ambitious. She didn’t realize that it is only the dying who are free from ambition. And they probably have the ambition to live. Some...

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

(…)”Take your time, because thereisn’t a moment to spare,(…) That’s what Stein told me when I had to leave Menakfor the first time. It kind of means that wherever yourdestination is, now is the time...

…you’re either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.

Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.

In every step you take, keep your feet firmly on the ground.

It is never late, pursuit your ambitions.

Beware of that demon called ‘Changing The World’.

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...