The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“I know what other people think about me,” Rusty told her. “ ‘That Rusty,’ they say. ‘Charming and handsome,’ they say first,… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for… — Pearl Bailey Copy Share Image
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when… — Katie Price Copy Share Image
Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the… — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying… — Honore de Balzac 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
There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
“Are you working towards some big goal in life? In the big picture, do you know what you want?" " I thought… — Dorothy Koomson Copy Share Image
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
All people dream, but no equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance.… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Cain Velasquez, he has some technical difficulties, but he has ambition, and he's fearless. He wants to win so badly, and he's… — Fedor Emelianenko Copy Share Image
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know… — Pancho Villa Copy Share Image
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
Don't go for less. Always go for the best. Every sunset gives us one day less to live, but every sunrise gives… — Edwin Mamerto Copy Share Image
Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“ambition meant never being satisfied, to be always hungering for something more, constantly pushing forward because no success could ever be big… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Having achieved what I thought was an ultimate ambition, I found, as I think is often the case, that there remained something… — John Christopher Copy Share Image
“I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a typically ambitious player, I did what all others of that ilk do: Everything I could do to gain advantage for… — Gary Gygax 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
If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic… — Alexander McCall Smith 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 suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
We need to achieve a change in the media and in the way women are pressured to conform to a narrow image… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image