I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . .… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day. — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I mean, I was ambitious about quality, but… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
“You see what I am driving at. The mentally handicapped do not have a consciousness of power. Because of this perhaps their… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.” — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
I think sometimes drive and ambition of individuals should not be confused as arrogance, and sometimes Cristiano gets that tag on him. — Andre Villas-Boas Copy Share Image
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I have only one simple ambition when I make a film. That it should be the best I have made so far.… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Understanding yourself is a step towards inner peace, and a step nearer achieving your unfulfilled ambitions. — Dr Harold Sala Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
