“When your ambition is so wrought that you're never satisfied, it takes a load of pressure off. Every spot on the ladder… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I was watching the Five Nations as a kid, I'm very fortunate to have been able to pull the red jersey on… — Alun Wyn Jones Copy Share Image
You have to continue to learn. That's how you develop. So the people who show that curiosity, that ambition, that willingness to… — Roger Goodell Copy Share Image
But there is no substance under the things I have gathered together about me. I am hollow, and my structure of pleasures… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I've always said that I won't be a Barcelona player for 20 years with a secondary role. The moment that I feel… — Sergio Busquets Copy Share Image
Reading interviews with other people, I see them say, 'All I want is for our band to be massive', but it was… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I have experienced the intensity of patriotism as a submarine officer, the ambitions of a competitive businessman, and the intensity of political… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I had always drawn, every day as long as I had held a pencil, and just assumed everyone else had too…Art had… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
“Do all the other things, of course, the ambitious things — travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
“An unavoidable side effect of ambition is to be gnawed by ambition anxiety about whether you’re going to succeed. You’re bound to… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions…… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Treat Defeat As A Temporary Road Block. Always Stay In Control Of Your Emotions And Never Allow Them To Influence You In… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that… — Bill Moggridge Copy Share Image
Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Socialism, communism, literally kills the lifeblood of opportunity and energy and creativity because there is no outlet for it, and yet all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Sometimes People Tend To Look Your Ability On The Negative Aspect, People's Criticism Has A Lot Of Negative Stereotypes. Keep Away From… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
This tension between ambition and parenthood, that's not a reckoning that many men face. There are plenty of men who say, 'Oh,… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my… — Alessandro Del Piero Copy Share Image
My only experience in the world of tiaras was as a contestant in a homecoming queen pageant that featured all the high… — Cynthia Bailey Copy Share Image
“Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“But there is an unbounded pleasure to be had in the possession of a young, newly blossoming soul! It is like a… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Ambition in Motion (The Sonnet) Come hell or high water, Never let caution cripple your feet. Better to fall hard and learn… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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