In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Im tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. — Babloo Copy Share Image
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own. — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
For me, the ages between 9 and 12 were great because it was before you wore any masks, and you had some… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
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
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. — Horace Copy Share Image
It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
“For Shama and her sisters and women like them, ambition, if the word could be used, was a series of negatives; not… — Naipaul V.S Copy Share Image
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition! — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Let other mortals vainly wear, A tedious life in anxious care; Let the ambitious toil and think, Let states or empires swim… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great… — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason—in spite of all his training, he found himself… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
