Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits. — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I love entertaining people; I strive to make them feel good, and they make me feel wonderful. To explain it simply, I… — Tony Bennett 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
“Ambition is your own yoke, not His! And the lust of wealth, the desire for power, the craving for human love—all that… — Jennifer Dukes Lee Copy Share Image
Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds… — Chris Sligh Copy Share Image
The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes,… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra.… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I've had an ambition to be somebody since I was 13 years old because I wanted to help my family. I wanted… — Trini Lopez Copy Share Image
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.” — Noel DeJesus Copy Share Image
There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“To live in the shadow of another person...to desire to be adored as that person is....is the weakest ambition of all. Find… — Faye Hall Copy Share Image
I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope. — Samuel West 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
“Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I wanted to act and do good work with good people. I wanted to be a part of good content. That was… — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“The high ambition, therefore, seems to me to be this: That one should strive to combine the maximum of impatience with the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also… — David Moranis Copy Share Image
