My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress. — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Picture a thirteen-year-old boy sitting in the living room of his family home doing his math assignment while wearing his Walkman headphones… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Downward social mobility. We hear a lot about the great social mobility in America with the focus usually on the comparative ease… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in everyone’s life—and I do mean in everyone’s life—when you ask yourself what it is that you’ve been… — Ali Sheikh Copy Share Image
Florence Foster Jenkins was born in Pennsylvania in 1868 and left home because her father refused to allow her to fulfil her… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
“Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can… — Ding Ling Copy Share Image
The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is… — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
Precocious and eccentric are okay. But I think that people in the arts represent something integral and kind of secretive in everybody… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“There is a loftier ambition than to stand high in the world. It is to step down and lift mankind a little… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“A longing for the extraordinary had grabbed ahold of her and was burning her up inside, so hot and fierce that her… — D. Anne Love Copy Share Image
If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
With Inspiration, Liberation and Determination, you can reach any Destination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
“The power of being a student is not just that it is an extended period of instruction, it also places the ego… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
I was told I would not walk and talk as a kid so having the ambition to drive, and the fact that… — Nicolas Hamilton Copy Share Image
When you don't have crazy ambitions, you're always happy just kind of getting by. Our expectations were always kept low. And so… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
“I believe fully that if you want to do something, you just go do it. You can sit around, think about it,… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want… — Hal Boyle Copy Share Image
“Whenever my ambition, influenced by my dreams, raised up above the everyday level of my life, so that for a moment I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example.… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does,… — George Lois Copy Share Image
At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I… — El-P Copy Share Image
You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions. — Bryan Brown Copy Share Image
![“Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/91a/abraham-lincoln-88_ambition_twenty-two-years-ago-judge-then-senator_1689352.jpg)
