“Having achieved what I thought was an ultimate ambition, I found, as I think is often the case, that there remained something… — John Christopher Copy Share Image
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who,… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
I think my mother had a lot of opportunity when she was a kid. She was a model, and she did a… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless… — Rob Morrow Copy Share Image
“A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct… — Karlfried Graf Durckheim Copy Share Image
everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Though we could always explain that our life was not as glamorous as it might seem in the telling, we did come… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book.… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
I've been producing records, and as early as my late teens, early 20s, I put out a hip-hop record and then the… — Balthazar Getty Copy Share Image
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His… — Anil Ambani Copy Share Image
Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay.… — Dom DeLuise Copy Share Image
It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
It has been my ambition, for some time, to bring the heart of the house back to life. 'Emma's Kitchen' is the… — Emma Weymouth Copy Share Image
I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
We need to achieve a change in the media and in the way women are pressured to conform to a narrow image… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My academic struggles were no barrier to my ambitions to be the best that I could be. To be someone who could… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
When I stopped looking at food as a reward or a celebration and began looking at food as energy to fuel my… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
It would have been naive to believe that it's an easy job to become the undisputed No. 1 at Barcelona, but that's… — Marc-Andre ter Stegen Copy Share Image
Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for… — Herbert Baxter Adams Copy Share Image
When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour;… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
I never thought of breaking a record. The only ambition I had was to become the fastest century maker for India, which… — Virender Sehwag Copy Share Image
China will have the biggest aging crisis that the world has ever seen over the next generation, and this happens at a… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
“There's nothing wrong with dreaming about accomplishing great things, as long as that desire isn't focused on one's own glory.” — Chip Ingram Copy Share Image
I was going to university to study psychology and my big ambition in life was to open treatment rooms for psychotherapy. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
When I left Facebook, I left an enormous amount of equity on the table. I thought, 'I don't want to be a… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
If you fail in your endeavor, never be disheartened. It's up to you to get back on track. It's your strength which… — Anil Kumar Sinha Copy Share Image
“If you want to live life exactly the way you want to, rather than following convention, then you’ve got to defy convention… — Neil Walker Copy Share Image
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Professional ambition is expected of men but is optional—or worse, sometimes even a negative—for women. “She is very ambitious” is not a… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
