“Of knowing that there is a larger energy and force that can crush our ambitions and plans in the blink of an… — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
“Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit a kingdom for it was to small… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
“Every success I have ever had or will have in the future comes not solely from my own ambition and hard work,… — T.S. Tate Copy Share Image
“Never settle for the lesser ambition. The job, the title, the conventional loyalties and rewards. Stay focused on the larger ambition, which… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
I am honoured to be appointed as the first chief executive of UKRI. My ambition is to make UKRI the world's leading… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
I've been playing music for a long time, mostly to empty rooms. That's not me getting the violin out. That's the reality… — Sam Ryder Copy Share Image
Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well-- Look to the helm, good master--many… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
I was never the type who had a particular ambition. I had friends in college who would say, 'I want to be… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected… — Plato Copy Share Image
Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American… — Sheldon Jackson Copy Share Image
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
We should all make an effort to realize our dream with our full capacity, and get started on our goals with vision… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Can you give someone a bad name for wanting to be ambitious? For wanting to move onto bigger things? That person is… — Michail Antonio Copy Share Image
I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.” — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever happens for dreamers and talkers; opportunity must be seized or created by sheer force of will and ambition. ” — Robert A. Rice, Jr Copy Share Image
Ambition is a priceless trait, it is grown and cultured in each and every individual that it lies in, and in some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish… — John Locke Copy Share Image
How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
You can dream for it is free, but living the dream needs sacrifice. Are you going to go through life dreaming for… — Frederick A Babb Copy Share Image
“There was no ambition to be famous, no desire to have pieces played by famous orchestras, no secret wish for commissions or… — Alec Wilder Copy Share Image
Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
