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...

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.