When I read about Gram Parsons' dream of this Cosmic American Music when I was in my late teens, that stuck with… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared… — Iain Pears 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
“The world needs great inspires, who will encourage every living soul to reach their highest potential. You can be one.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Devote yourself to the idea. Go make it happen. Struggle on it. Overcome your fears, smile. Dont forget: this is your dream. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
If you're willing to put in the work, the idea is that you should be able to raise a family and own… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“If we experience life thoughtfully and bravely, we discover the journey doesn't end in a watercolored sunset on the horizon. Rather, we… — Karen Henry Clark Copy Share Image
Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land -movie - Karate kid"What is the calculus of innovation?" "The calculus of… — William R. Brody Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
I have always had that drive and ambition to keep on top of my fitness and look after my body, because it… — Scott McTominay Copy Share Image
I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige the highest ambition.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“His faith demanded his hopefulness, and his hope underpinned his work. He worked to give others the opportunity to hope - that… — Mark K. Shriver Copy Share Image
Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Nothing comes easy, if you want something bad enough, you will get it, but don't wait for it to come to you,… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
“To lay aside what you have in your head (selfish desires and ambitions); to freely bestow what you have in your hand;… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions… — Vincent Piazza Copy Share Image
“If you make your own rules in life, rather than going by those laid down by others, you find that it becomes… — Neil Walker Copy Share Image
Growth begins with looking at those things we desire most and finding the bliss in working towards them, not in achieving them. — Senora Roy 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
If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does,… — George Lois Copy Share Image
No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
“If you couldn't help harboring higher aspirations in life, you should at least harbor only simple desires, reduced in passion and ambition,… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
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