In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not… — Don Dewberry Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing wrong with ambition, Sherry. Nobody wants to be average. Hell, average is easy. Going above and beyond—now that’s hard. That… — Lotchie Burton Copy Share Image
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
My ambition is to stop showing off. I'd love to be a tweedy academic. I'd be happy living in a croft. I… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
I used to be very ambitious. But reality taught me that ambition won't get you everything you want. You need more than… — Seungri Copy Share Image
I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open,… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. We are greater than… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Haven't I told you scores of times, that you're always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top,… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“Whenever my ambition, influenced by my dreams, raised up above the everyday level of my life, so that for a moment I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity.… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
In life, everything just happens, and I believe even before we are born that our role in life has already been determined.… — Gerry Rafferty Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not an expert and I imagine I'll spend my life figuring it out. What I do know, is that you… — Karlie Kloss Copy Share Image
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save… — William James Copy Share Image
I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what… — Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin Copy Share Image
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I've been lucky in my life to have a couple of really amazing connections with people. For me, it's more about someone… — Jack Draper Copy Share Image
Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
“He realized all at once that ambition and love might not make good bedfellows, that a choice between them might be necessary.” — Samuel Shellabarger Copy Share Image
“Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have… — Malaika Arora Khan Copy Share Image
“You don't need to be good at everything, you just need to be absolutely, unequivocally, insurmountably good at one thing. Once you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“My ambition is a river, carrying not just me or my family, but lives I have yet to touch. For this, I… — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off, but they've all given me a fervor. An angry ambition… — Tobey Maguire Copy Share Image
My ambition in the cinema, since I came across it, was to play Chance... I have realized that ambition, and so I… — Peter Sellers Copy Share Image
Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula… — Kimi Raikkonen Copy Share Image
God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Reach your ambition as high as the skies! Dream it as high as the skies! Because if you're fell, you're gonna fall… — Sukarno Copy Share Image
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Confidence is a very important factor in achieving success. You have to believe in yourself first, then believe in what you do… — D RAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Knowing the path through the forest doesn't make the trip any less daunting. Knowing the steps to your dreams doesn't make the… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has. — Bob Lewis Copy Share Image
