He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We dream with our eyes closed, and make them into reality with our eyes open. — Timothy Tam Copy Share Image
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think all musicians and producers, they know the real goal is to come up with a record that is entertaining and… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions. — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is,… — Orison S. Marden Copy Share Image
My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
One of the things that we have to change in this country is the idea that people can't disagree without challenging each… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“However vital our choices seem, and however fervently our ambitions burn, God decides our vocation... “We are his workmanship,” writes Paul, “created… — Kathryn Butler Copy Share Image
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how one can go — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
My greatest ambition is to wake up every morning and not crave a full English breakfast. — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old. — Jason Priestley Copy Share Image
Don't just dream it, believe you can achieve it, success comes to those who refuse to give up, no matter how many… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
The one thing that John Kennedy did, above all else, was to energize young people to feel that they wanted to give… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions.… — Im Dong-Hyun Copy Share Image
Within the industry - I can only speak for myself - but I think everybody has different goals and ambitions and different… — Jamie-Lee O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I would like to win the Ballon d'Or for women. But every top professional should have that ambition. — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I like to teach. And when I spot talent without ambition, it makes me angry. I give students short shrift if they're… — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image
Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There's a starting place. And that starting place for everyone is ambition. We're all scared of that word today because they made… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.” — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
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