Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions(…)if one has failed...

It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter.

Today’s politicians are like policemen on traffic duty. They are just dealing with traffic right in front of them. Yet they want to be the Superintendent based on that alone. The politicians and the bigwigs...

The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.

Get better acquainted with yourself, and understand the burning ambitions that dwell within. Be brave enough to follow these. They’re your dreams. Follow your dreams. They are your purpose – your purpose will fulfil you....

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.

If I refused him this opportunity of fulfilling his ambition it would not be good for him or Manchester City Football Club.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The...

I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

I’ve been very lucky at what’s happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine – anything from a mutated baddy in a comic...

This proposal from the Bank does not suggest a strong ambition to re-direct financing away from existing fossil fuel patterns, or to deliver sustainable energy to the two billion people currently without.

I’ve learned one thing about life. There are so many chapters. Where one chapter ends another one begins. The book is never finished. And I love reading.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don’t like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

He lies on the couch all day watching television. I admire his classic American ambition. He’s probably a better lover than me.

Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?

Your fantasies define you, so dream carefully. A man with no imagination is a man with no future in today’s world—and no past in tomorrow’s.

Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.

You have to choose your path.You have to decide what you wish to do.You are the only person that can determine your destiny.

Do not get lost in the flow of reality.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Without ambition, no goal can be met.

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them and your will see them dissolving in front of your eyes.

To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal of the survivor.

You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can’t let it slip by, as...

Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living – and earning a living.

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that’s like using money to bribe a beast.

Ambitious people understand intelligent people far better than intelligent people understand ambitious people; therefore, ambition will always triumph over intelligence. Once you appreciate this reality, civilization becomes clearer and unfortunately, more distressing.

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very...

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.