Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Friendships that are first grounded in the shared professional ambitions - social stuff is built around that - and then you see… — Rachel Sklar Copy Share Image
'Chef' is a dish of arroz con pollo served with a smile but not much style. The critic in the film would… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
When You Truly Believe that You Deserve Success, Your Mind Will Automatically Generate Ways to Achieve it. So Always, Value Your Self! — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you only have… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“A burning desire to be and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in… — Jennifer Ehle Copy Share Image
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
“Some ask; what drives me? I tell them it's that fire in my belly. My burning Ambition to succeed and the true… — Antwan Banks Copy Share Image
“The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not… — Shantanu Narayen Copy Share Image
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
There was reason for STILLMAN'S EXTREME SECRECY. HE WAS PREPARING TO EXTEND THE CITY BANK'S POWER OVER THE EARTH AND FULLY RECOGNIZED… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
We would look quite distinctive from what we were like in our 20s. Back then, we put emphasis on our youth, ambition… — Ok Taec-yeon Copy Share Image
Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“I say that ambition is absurd, and yet I remain in its thrall. It’s like being a slave all your life, then… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Many European parties, including the conventional parties in France, no longer have the ability to keep people together. And in terms of… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
In the Hillary Clinton model, the wife chooses to support the straying husband while wearing a distressed and presumably pained expression in… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most reliable route to meaning and joy, to plunging below the surface and seeking more than the superficiality of material… — Michael Short Copy Share Image
I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year.… — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Reading God's Word and receiving the knowledge of Jesus Christ renews the believer's mind and transforms it to His mind. The minds… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that [Chris] Christie's endorsement is, you know, it's a sign that - you know, he is who we thought he… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image