Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“At last a lifetime ambition of mine to become a pimp was satisfied.” — Jack Woodford Copy Share Image
You have to show you have ambition as a team, as a group of players; show you want to win. Otherwise, in… — Kevin De Bruyne Copy Share Image
No one would call me a great cook, but over years of cooking, for me, confidence has replaced ambition. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
The only restaurants in which you're actually happy to be served your entree are the restaurants that serve entrees ungarlanded by Chef's… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Follow your ambitions, not your dreams. One time I had a dream that Adam Sandler was my dad and we lived in… — Aly Johnson Copy Share Image
Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I… — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations;… — marcus aurelius Copy Share Image
It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never had ambition to become president of the state or to accomplish more than men. — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
City showed me their ambition to be one of the biggest clubs in the world, and I was happy to join. — Carlos Tevez Copy Share Image
A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Power is not nearly enough for Trump. Power he already possessed, starting with the money his father gave him, which grew into… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
You may want to prove that you're worthy of other kids or neighbors who were wealthier than you and teased you. You… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all -… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.... — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life. — Gabriella Wilde Copy Share Image
Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“What drives history is the human ambition to alter one’s condition to match one’s hopes.’3” — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Both parents worshiped individual achievement, but because of the Depression and the war, they never achieved what they wanted and deserved. So… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you… — Abigail Spencer Copy Share Image
THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a… — Pilou Asbaek Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
