One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Don't go for less. Always go for the best. Every sunset gives us one day less to live, but every sunrise gives… — Edwin Mamerto Copy Share Image
Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know… — Pancho Villa Copy Share Image
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I don't want to be poor. I don't want to be rich to the extent that all I care about is keeping… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I was eight, my parents saved up to send me to private school, but I found it so tough that I… — Peter Jones Copy Share Image
In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Having achieved what I thought was an ultimate ambition, I found, as I think is often the case, that there remained something… — John Christopher Copy Share Image
“ambition meant never being satisfied, to be always hungering for something more, constantly pushing forward because no success could ever be big… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Ambition, intention and disciplined effort will bring you great things in this world, but there is more to success than acquiring the… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
As a typically ambitious player, I did what all others of that ilk do: Everything I could do to gain advantage for… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“But you have to ignore all of that and work endlessly to make your visions a reality. Stake a claim on your… — Elise Hooper Copy Share Image
[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and… — Maxine Cheshire Copy Share Image
“Who knows how easily ambition disguises itself under the name of a calling, possibly in good faith and deceiving itself, in sanctimonious… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one the ambition of serving the great cause… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If you're best isn't good enough, you're not trying hard enough and if you want to believe how far you're ambition will… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Britain rightly sees herself as a global good citizen, but she must reconcile ambition with power, ends with means - shedding utopian… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
When you follow a dream, be sure what you've chosen will be worth the pain and struggle you'll have to endure to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
“And every artist’s life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one’s limitations. To achieve anything you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“and paint, to take care of my father, to feel that I belonged, to do something useful and good with my time.… — Julianne Donaldson Copy Share Image
“Nothing worse than a weak man with ambition, who gains power because those before him died rather than because his ideals were… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
PSG's ambition of the Champions League is also mine. I know they have a great project. I want to participate in this… — Angel Di Maria Copy Share Image
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
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