Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
When I left Facebook, I left an enormous amount of equity on the table. I thought, 'I don't want to be a… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
Ambition, intention and disciplined effort will bring you great things in this world, but there is more to success than acquiring the… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I was never the type who had a particular ambition. I had friends in college who would say, 'I want to be… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Even if we’ve never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church—even if we have, and vowed never to go… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
I just kind of figured that school is always there. Fight careers are pretty short. I mean, I might as well live… — Raquel Pennington Copy Share Image
Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come… — Roy Bennett Copy Share Image
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition. — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
“When ambition exceeds ability, you are going to experience hardship. We have the choice to fear it or embrace it.” — Kevin Jorgenson Copy Share Image
There is no place in the kingdom of heaven for a divided heart. It is in the division that love is lost;… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
“Getting drunk with success and sick with ambition only leads to one route; destruction!” — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
As soon as I step on the pitch in football my ambition is to get those three points. — Demba Ba Copy Share Image
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. — Lynn Davies Copy Share Image
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm not ambitious, I never have been; it's just not in my DNA. — George Stroumboulopoulos Copy Share Image
“If you don't work for your dreams, someone will hire you to work for theirs.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Questions to Consider 1. Strategic intent is a powerful core for any strategy. We can sometimes lose sight of this core, wrapped… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I wanted to be in film or TV, making content, not being on camera. I actually never had that ambition, as crazy… — Spencer Pratt Copy Share Image
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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