Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition." — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Girl with intentions. Greatness is the only expectation and she won't settle for anything less. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
When I see people scratching and clawing towards ambition and greed, I wonder why they are doing it and for what. — Raveena Tandon Copy Share Image
As a player, you should have ambition - I'm sure every player you speak to wants to play in the Champions League. — Nicklas Bendtner Copy Share Image
I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover… — Jake LaMotta Copy Share Image
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct,… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer. However, if you can’t see yourself doing… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is… — Melanie Klein Copy Share Image
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I want to see all the countries in the world and learn all the languages. I want to have thousands of friends… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
“Picture a thirteen-year-old boy sitting in the living room of his family home doing his math assignment while wearing his Walkman headphones… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The highest kind of writing—which must not be confused with the most ambitious kind…belongs to the realm of grace. Talent is part… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image