“We forbid growth and therefore decay. Ambition, and therefore despair. Because each is only the warped relection of the other.” — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition. — Arturo Sandoval Copy Share Image
“We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My favorite thing about coaching? Teaching. Being around young people, just watching a player grow and develop. You know, a young man… — Tubby Smith Copy Share Image
A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Here is the Divine Dichotomy... The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'. Just be where you choose to get!' It's… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director. — Yash Chopra Copy Share Image
Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
“He admitted but four elementary principles, or more strictly, conditions of bliss. That which he considered chief was (strange to say!) the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
“Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is,… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil… — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
When people look at me they see an ordinary boy with dirty rags, when I look into the mirror I see a… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and thrive. Not everyone… — Anne Mallory Copy Share Image
As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator. It's… — Jake Lodwick Copy Share Image
“It was the verdict of ancient writers that men afflict themselves in evil and weary themselves in the good, and that the… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Peace is, indeed, our policy. A kind Providence has cast our lot on a portion of the globe sufficiently vast to satisfy… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die. — Gurbaksh Chahal Copy Share Image
Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
If you have ambition in football that's the dangerous thing because the ambition will drive you on to make decisions that commercially… — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
“High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Valuing time with your family does not mean you've lost your ambition. Define success for yourself. — Claire Shipman Copy Share Image
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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