Ambition is a priceless trait, it is grown and cultured in each and every individual that it lies in, and in some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever happens for dreamers and talkers; opportunity must be seized or created by sheer force of will and ambition. ” — Robert A. Rice, Jr Copy Share Image
“Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.” — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was the verdict of ancient writers that men afflict themselves in evil and weary themselves in the good, and that the… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Flesh and blood, You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian- Whose inward pinches therefore are most… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I know what you want. One month after the ascension of Philippe the Gullible, M. Laclos found in a gutter, deceased. Blamed… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Of lunacy, Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride, Ambition disappointed, riches lost, And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft By man inflicted on… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country,… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“There was no ambition to be famous, no desire to have pieces played by famous orchestras, no secret wish for commissions or… — Alec Wilder Copy Share Image
You can dream for it is free, but living the dream needs sacrifice. Are you going to go through life dreaming for… — Frederick A Babb Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
A burning ambition of mine is to take Scotland to a major tournament. It should be the pinnacle of any players' career… — Steve Clarke Copy Share Image
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights.… — Jenna Woginrich Copy Share Image
Focus on your dreams and be true to the cause you have dream for, as progress and growth is not possible without… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't… — Eddie Arcaro Copy Share Image
The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“I know what other people think about me,” Rusty told her. “ ‘That Rusty,’ they say. ‘Charming and handsome,’ they say first,… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for… — Pearl Bailey Copy Share Image
I'm not an ambitious person. I'm very content, and I have no pending dreams. God has given me so much, and if… — Chiranjeevi Copy Share Image
You can be the person thats living their dream, the person that's going after their dreams or the person that gave up… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
