“That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Women who become mothers are policed and regulated during pregnancy, forced to give up so much - work and ambition, often. — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
“Your real journey starts from the point when you realize that your life, ambition, success, dreams, achievements, future, everything is on your… — Muhammad Talha Copy Share Image
I grew without having a thing about the Ballon d'Or. When I was young, Ballon d'Or was also given to the European… — Hernan Crespo Copy Share Image
Take ones adversity Learn from their misfortune Learn from their pain Believe in something Believe in yourself Turn adversity into ambition Now… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in… — Roy Bennett Copy Share Image
Our ambition is to build a globally competitive and futuristic transportation system in India that will support and accelerate a nation on… — Bhavish Aggarwal Copy Share Image
The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or… — Marion Meade Copy Share Image
“A Horrible thought: could this be the pattern of my life ahead? Every ambition thwarted, every dream stillborn? But a seconds reflection… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
How could I have been the valedictorian, the smartest, and never known Harlem existed? As a result, I began a lifelong learning… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“I've put out a lot of little roots these two years," Anne told the moon, "and when I'm pulled up they're going… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
When I started listening to Paramore, I was in high school, and they were, like, 15. Seeing somebody at such a young… — Bayley Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if your biggest ambition in life is to git that big ole coon. The one what hangs… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Confidence and ambition are the most attractive qualities to me, and knowing what you want and being upfront about it is a… — Eva Marie Copy Share Image
As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very… — Justin Hayward Copy Share Image
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina… — Billie Burke Copy Share Image
Benfica is a club of the people, with ambition domestically and in Europe and that was important to me, I really want… — Jan Vertonghen Copy Share Image
I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish… — Heather Bresch Copy Share Image
Don't want to sound like a fortune cookie but I'm so proud of my best friends. Their ambition is what motivates me.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To represent your country is the ultimate honour, and to play Test cricket for India will be the ultimate fulfilment of my… — Prithvi Shaw Copy Share Image
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
A creative person conceives lot of innovative ideas and has the potential to create beautiful life, a life full of ambitious, and… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“Don't give up. As you work to achieve your most ambitious goals, push yourself to keep moving forward." M. Sheheryar Naseer” — M. Sheheryar Naseer Copy Share Image
People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
