His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too… — Jack Newfield Copy Share Image
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
You can't put limits on your goals, the more you dream, the farther you will get. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest. — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
There's so many things I wanna do in life. Like I don't know what to do first. Well, life is what we… — Myself Copy Share Image
Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
As I got older, my ambitions changed and I wanted to be a graphic designer. In form five, I did Art for… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal… — Eric Liddell Copy Share Image
“You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
You decide to become a good man or a strong man or a rich man or all these; you can bring about… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“his greatest ambition for England is this: the prince and his commonwealth should be in accord. He doesn’t want the kingdom to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do… — Michelle Gomez Copy Share Image
What is it about politics, though, which makes people from the same tribe tear each other apart? Perhaps ego and ambition have… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image