Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“However vital our choices seem, and however fervently our ambitions burn, God decides our vocation... “We are his workmanship,” writes Paul, “created… — Kathryn Butler Copy Share Image
I had two competing ambitions when I was a child: I wanted to be a Scientist and Discover Great Things, but I… — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about god except that it's not me. So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
This ego has all the desires, ambitions, wants to be always on the top of everything. You are exploited by this ego.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My ambitions have been raised as I have less to lose. I feel I could do anything and if people don't like… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
“Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above them, owning nothing,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Joan Rivers is a very wise lady. We're good friends, and I find her very much an inspiration as to how to… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
“I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith--contentment with a lowly place. I am a doctor… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
You want a woman who, if needed, will be the CEO of the home. In essence, you want a woman who understands… — Tony Gaskins Copy Share Image
The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
I remember [Patrick J. Adams] being in a particularly disillusioned place and really wanting your ambitions to be met with opportunity and… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The stoic drama 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard's complexion. It's… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Follow your nature. The practice is really about uncovering your own pose; we have great respect for our teachers, but unless we… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
The one thing that John Kennedy did, above all else, was to energize young people to feel that they wanted to give… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
It is easier to kill than to heal. It is easier to destroy than to preserve. It is easier to tear down… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without… — Benjamin Harvey Hill Copy Share Image
In order to be successful inculcate the values that will aid to your effort, as well as cultivate an attitude and habit… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Most people spend more time planning their grocery shopping than designing their future. The basic difference between people who live their dreams… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Revamp is a band that would deserve the hundred-percent devotion a band needs, and at this moment, I don't see any future… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image