I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work. — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It's important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I should not act better than anybody, but sure as hell, NOBODY’S better than ME!” — Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin Copy Share Image
Success comes to man who does today what others were thinking of doing tomorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
“What ambitious story could you turn your life into? You can’t start over. You have to use only what’s in the toolbox—and… — Elizabeth Hyde Stevens Copy Share Image
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
You've got ambition, strong intuition. You're on a mission to be number one. What ever it takes to get what you deserve.… — Robben Ford Copy Share Image
They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Desire is key to motivation. But it is determination and commitment which enables you to reach your goal with excellence. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for -- ulcers, hypertension, and heart… — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I can't speak for everybody, but sometimes, people get in this showbiz game and they get the money, but then they forget… — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
“Life is too short for fearmongering and becoming ensnarled in lengthy periods of depression. We must use our time judiciously and never… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
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