When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions…… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Treat Defeat As A Temporary Road Block. Always Stay In Control Of Your Emotions And Never Allow Them To Influence You In… — Pacifiersucker 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
In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that… — Bill Moggridge Copy Share Image
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
This tension between ambition and parenthood, that's not a reckoning that many men face. There are plenty of men who say, 'Oh,… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Sometimes People Tend To Look Your Ability On The Negative Aspect, People's Criticism Has A Lot Of Negative Stereotypes. Keep Away From… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Socialism, communism, literally kills the lifeblood of opportunity and energy and creativity because there is no outlet for it, and yet all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my… — Alessandro Del Piero Copy Share Image
I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice… — Bill Watterson 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
My only experience in the world of tiaras was as a contestant in a homecoming queen pageant that featured all the high… — Cynthia Bailey Copy Share Image
“Security ... what does this word mean in relation to life as we know it today? For the most part, it means… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
I think he's the best, though I've had many great coaches: Fernando Santos, Carlo Ancelotti, Felipe Scolari. However, Mourinho brought something different.… — Deco Copy Share Image
Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Powerful is determination You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win that… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I've been looking for ways to audition more, because it also keeps me sharp and keeps my ambition at its firm edge.… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“Despite his mellow, Zen-like demeanor, the appearance of that bookcase betrayed an urgency. A hunger. This thing meant something to him. Of… — Amanda Gefter Copy Share Image
This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Alice knows those stories. The routiers and condottieri of the Free Companies, who fight the wars of whichever prince will pay their… — Vanora Bennett Copy Share Image
While the agreement signed in Paris between 195 nations to combat climate change was historic and significant, it's still vague and lacks… — John B. Quigley Copy Share Image
We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I think it's a mistake to think, 'Am I going to write a young adult book, or do I desperately want to… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started, with three friends, this website called Crowdrise that's sort of the Facebook for personal philanthropy, a place where anybody can… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Commit to not letting your fears define your boundaries. Commit to pushing past the excuses and obstacles that will inevitably emerge. Commit… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I never aspired to the local political fiefdom thing that a lot of people ascribed me to. I saw myself as a… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Peace is, indeed, our policy. A kind Providence has cast our lot on a portion of the globe sufficiently vast to satisfy… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
