One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Only those with determination and a thirst to succeed will drink at the fountain of success. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have so much ambition inside me I don't know where to start, but I take a deep breath and realise… — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I will embrace this moment with Love in my Heart. And how will I act? I will Love all manners of man… — Hidreez Kunley Copy Share Image
I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I've questioned myself, and wondered why I don't like to sleep a lot. I came up with a conclusion that I'm not… — Reilly Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm very happy doing what I do. And if I were in the White House I would be really interested in continuing… — Eunice Kennedy Shriver Copy Share Image
I had no ambition to go into show business when I was growing up. I started out as an advertising copywriter and… — Bob Einstein Copy Share Image
Both my parents really got it out of the mud. In our household, it was never a plan B, plan C, anything… — Latto Copy Share Image
I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame — John Adams Copy Share Image
When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
