I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of… — Sarah Emma Edmonds Copy Share Image
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious. — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Republicans are systematically and deliberately trying to stop millions of American citizens from voting. What part of democracy are they afraid of?… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
I never had any massive burning ambition to be on the box in everyone's front rooms at peak time on Saturday night… — Rhod Gilbert Copy Share Image
In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
Life can be everything you wish. Well, of course if you stop wishing and do something about it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
No matter what we do in our life, to be a success we need to be consistent and determined towards our dream. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions. — George Barna Copy Share Image
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth.… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in… — Jennifer Ehle Copy Share Image
To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are… — James Madison Copy Share Image
One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me. — Daniel Mainwaring Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I had a good contract at Southampton, the managers in the Premier League are very well paid, but in football you need… — Ronald Koeman Copy Share Image
God only knows we need a great role model as a leader who is more leader than they are male or female,… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
At any time the atmosphere in the West could change, for which determined political will I do not see at the moment… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
An educated man without ambition is as badly off as an ambitious man without education. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A seldom end up where I want to go, but almost always end up I need to be — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
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