Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
It's never too late to realize your ambitions. Take the first step by daring to dream big dreams. Then have the confidence… — Donald MacRae Copy Share Image
My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Being kind is the most important thing Ive ever been taught. Thats what my parents always told me - more important than… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
The difference between this film [Your highness] and Pineapple Express was pretty much in the logistics of the technical ambition of the… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I have no ambition for what society says is important as far as things like money, and all that kind of stuff.… — Daniel Bryan Copy Share Image
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
I believe that no matter how many mistakes weÂ’ve made; how badly weÂ’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“I think that in practical life there is something about success, actual success, that is a little unscrupulous, something about ambition that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm not an ambitious person. I'm very content, and I have no pending dreams. God has given me so much, and if… — Chiranjeevi Copy Share Image
You can be the person thats living their dream, the person that's going after their dreams or the person that gave up… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
“For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they… — Lucy Maud Montgomery 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
All our dreams are bound to come true, if we have courage to pursue them. It is our courage which gives wings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would love to end the nuclear ambition of the Iranians without firing a shot, but you have to know who you're… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally… — Herbert 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
Dream is to get what you really want in life, Goal is to make sure that you have destination to go to,… — Hendra Hilman Copy Share Image
The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments. — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Focus on your dreams and be true to the cause you have dream for, as progress and growth is not possible without… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights.… — Jenna Woginrich Copy Share Image
I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't… — Eddie Arcaro Copy Share Image