The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come. This is a legitimate ambition for… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Girl with intentions. Greatness is the only expectation and she won't settle for anything less. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The person who is free of sexuality, whose sexuality has become a transformed phenomenon, is also free of money, is also free… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom.” — Habeeb Akande Copy Share Image
Fashion is it's own currency, some pieces of fashion you can never put a dollar amount on. — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
“His faith demanded his hopefulness, and his hope underpinned his work. He worked to give others the opportunity to hope - that… — Mark K. Shriver Copy Share Image
Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old… — Joseph A. Schumpeter 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
I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as… — Charles Cotton Copy Share Image
Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
My mother was a dancer and my first ambition was to dance, but now that I've had some acting experience I want… — Joey Heatherton Copy Share Image
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert,for he has only himself to… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires,… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
But every job I've had I just end up writing tunes and skiving - so everything has been leading up to it,… — Gerry Cinnamon Copy Share Image
“What greater stimulus to ambition than the promise that the goals of which we dream, the nobility of spirit to which we… — Fiona Maazel Copy Share Image
The difference between this film [Your highness] and Pineapple Express was pretty much in the logistics of the technical ambition of the… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
“None of us have reached the peak of perfection, but it shouldn’t stop anyone from trying to make the climb.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image