Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I am not an ambitious guy, I have a very laidback attitude; money for me is less important than self-respect and ideals. — Abhinav Shukla 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
“A veritable atlas. What rivers of desire, what mountains of ambition. Want, want, hope, hope, this is what your palm say, your… — Anuradha Roy Copy Share Image
“Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Be a little bit more wild... dream a little bit bigger... love even more... hate a little less... smile like it's the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
My God, grant that my bounty may be a clear and transparent river, flowing from pure charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambition,… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“However, because ambition is easily disguised in Christian circles and couched in spiritual language (the need to fulfill the Great Commission and… — Gary L. McIntosh Copy Share Image
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs… — David Hume Copy Share Image
... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am really pleased to sign permanently with St. Etienne. It was my ambition in coming to St. Etienne. This is one… — Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Copy Share Image
When I was at Paisley Grammar we were equipped to compete with the private-school kids - and encouraged to do so. The… — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything. — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
I don't just love you, I love as much as I miss you, baby. You're my sunshine and the air I breathe,… — Valentino Becker Copy Share Image
When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Disability is articulated as a struggle, an unnecessary burden that one must overcome to the soundtrack of a string crescendo. But disabled… — Sinead Burke Copy Share Image
Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby the tilt of the social… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Mr. Obama at the UN said that the large nations should not trample small ones in pursuit of what he called "territorial… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone… — Jorja Fox Copy Share Image
Had I not been Roddy Llewellyn, I don't suppose anyone would have bothered to take an interest in my ambition to make… — Roddy Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Stop wishing & start doing! Your lack of effort won't affect a true hustlers ambition. Perseverance through adversity is key. — Behdad Sami Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm competitive. I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, "Someone unwrap it! Here it… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
“An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Your dream may not resemble that of the great people you always admired, but it can be equally great or even greater… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
“My ambitions aren't grand. All I have ever wanted is to be there for the two people who mean everything to me.… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
“Some people sought to lead. Most did not. Some people sought to star on television, or show in art museums, or become… — Steve Bein Copy Share Image
But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image