To be the best in your field is a great ambition, and requires discipline and a huge amount of effort. The athletes… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jenny, all my life I have wanted to do miracles. I have wanted to be holy. I suppose it was ambition or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the midst of all our emotional upheaval caused by ambition, aggression, rejection, transition, addiction, limitation and competition, the one thing that… — Sherlyn Chopra Copy Share Image
Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that… — Eydie Gorme Copy Share Image
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . .… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“I never had any ambition to do anything commercial, anything journalistic. I wanted to be an artist, and I wanted to be… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
“Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
“What greater stimulus to ambition than the promise that the goals of which we dream, the nobility of spirit to which we… — Fiona Maazel Copy Share Image
“We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“Level 5 leaders: ambition first and foremost for the company and concern for its success rather than for one’s own riches and… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“Ambition is a funny thing. It’s like being a Trekkie in that if you admit to it, those around you are mock… — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
Every child thrives on encouragement, but beware of forcing it. I've seen too many family relationships crumble because of excessive ambition on… — Paige Spiranac Copy Share Image
When you come to Paris you are at a club that has the ambition to be the best in the world, you… — Kylian Mbappe Copy Share Image
“I love your farm, you know I do, but this is your passion. I’m figuring out what mine is. I’m good at… — Maria Jane Copy Share Image
The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Don't be intimidated by people who try to belittle your ambitions. Most of the time they are just jealous of your success… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
“A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We have to try to do our best in every game with great ambition, because we must always have the right ambition.… — Antonio Conte Copy Share Image
It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In… — David Pryce-Jones Copy Share Image
What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
There is no place in the kingdom of heaven for a divided heart. It is in the division that love is lost;… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
Being a coach means giving your job 200% all the time and you're family is left on the side so I don't… — Emmanuel Petit Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they… — Robley Wilson Copy Share Image
“Maura looks stunned, as though she's been slapped. "What about me? Don't you trust me?" She gives a hysterical little laugh. Tears… — Jessica Spotswood Copy Share Image
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