Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But… — Anonymous 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
I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country,… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would like the ambition to go directly into songwriting; individual songs. I want to see what I can do to push… — Radical Face Copy Share Image
We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
One of the things I noticed is that if you look up the word ambition you will see that when it's applied… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I am told by people all the time that they simply do not have time to read and listen to all the… — Dan S. Kennedy Copy Share Image
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“There was no ambition to be famous, no desire to have pieces played by famous orchestras, no secret wish for commissions or… — Alec Wilder Copy Share Image
You can dream for it is free, but living the dream needs sacrifice. Are you going to go through life dreaming for… — Frederick A Babb Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
A burning ambition of mine is to take Scotland to a major tournament. It should be the pinnacle of any players' career… — Steve Clarke Copy Share Image
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Can you give someone a bad name for wanting to be ambitious? For wanting to move onto bigger things? That person is… — Michail Antonio Copy Share Image
I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish… — John Locke Copy Share Image
While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Ambition is a priceless trait, it is grown and cultured in each and every individual that it lies in, and in some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever happens for dreamers and talkers; opportunity must be seized or created by sheer force of will and ambition. ” — Robert A. Rice, Jr Copy Share Image
Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.” — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
“Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air.… — Heidi W. Durrow Copy Share Image
If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry,… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can… — Ding Ling Copy Share Image
Every major achievement is almost always preceded by years of toil, hard work, failure, stress, tests of character, determination, sleepless nights... All… — Prakah Iyer Copy Share Image
