I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who… — Nicolas Caussin Copy Share Image
Let other mortals vainly wear, A tedious life in anxious care; Let the ambitious toil and think, Let states or empires swim… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take… — Alan Hansen Copy Share Image
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in… — Horace Copy Share Image
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my… — Anna Held Copy Share Image
So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day… — George Jung Copy Share Image
I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“This was my ambition: to become a good wife and mother. Plus one improbable extra: [...] to find, deep inside, my own… — Lydia Minatoya Copy Share Image
“From the very beginning Ihad felt a definite contact with Yeamon, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is cheap in this… — hunter s. thompson Copy Share Image
“…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always… — Homer Copy Share Image
Thank the Lord for a mother who was a general as well as a Latter-day Saint; who realized that it was a… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Public people are definitely captives. It wasn't really my ambition, but that's what happened. If I could find another word that would… — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
“The world might rage around, yet within the Stoic’s mind, a tranquil sea prevails. The Stoic remains anchored, not carried away by… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
A failed Iraq in the heart of the Middle East will provide safe haven for terrorists and extremists. It will embolden those… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and… — Yakubu Gowon Copy Share Image
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without… — Emilie Buchwald 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
I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia,… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some compulsion: if he can't… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Although, from the point of view of sociology, the overt ambition of 'American Pastoral' - to imagine the impact on a good… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
![“This was my ambition: to become a good wife and mother. Plus one improbable extra: [...] to find, deep inside, my own wiser self, to locate my own special future. I thought these were modest ambitions. They didn't seem too yawning or huge. But perhaps wanting what's essential and simple is the…” quote by Lydia Minatoya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/857/lydia-minatoya-63899_ambition_this-was-my-ambition-to-become-a-good-wi_2107077.jpg)
