It's important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Success comes to man who does today what others were thinking of doing tomorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I should not act better than anybody, but sure as hell, NOBODY’S better than ME!” — Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin Copy Share Image
It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition. — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. — Thomas Carlyle 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of those… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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