Generally, though, becoming captain was never something I thought about. I've always pushed myself to be a leader and a winner through… — Stephan Lichtsteiner Copy Share Image
There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct,… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover… — Jake LaMotta Copy Share Image
I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
“Famine is good to the corn-merchant, evil to the poor, and indifferent to those whose fortunes can at all times command a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We need an effective American diplomacy that will marshall the resources of nations in the Asian Pacific Rim to put pressure on… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I don't think we should just 'muddle through' and ignore the question of life's meaning. Or better, perhaps, I don't think it… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who… — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had… — Elizabeth Ray Copy Share Image
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world. — Robert Langlands Copy Share Image
I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is… — Melanie Klein Copy Share Image
To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer. However, if you can’t see yourself doing… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
You write for glory. You play for glory. There's an ambition to excel, isn't there, to be a star? To score more,… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“the vague feeling of ambitions in common, the awakening of a higher intelligence among the vulgar herd of dunces and dunderheads they… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
What I try to do - I mean 'try,' because you don't get there all the time - is to have impact… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
“Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Dreams are like our life force. They are our motivation. Dreams keep us going when things are tough, and they encourage us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To better myself, using my past as my teacher. It took me too long. I was blinded by ambition, my drive…I know… — Joseph A. Turkot Copy Share Image
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was never afraid of my ambition - other people have been. I feel like it's been received at different times as… — Ariana DeBose Copy Share Image
I started thinking of myself as an ambitious person when I graduated college. But when I hear stories about myself as a… — Michelle Buteau Copy Share Image
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image