“Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.” — Roy Bennett Copy Share Image
"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds… — Chris Sligh Copy Share Image
Intention implies assuming you can and have every right to achieve your ambition and that you are powerful enough to make it… — Gloria Feldt Copy Share Image
I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
We're different people. Politics and films were an ambition for Arnold, but never for me. But I would say that his contribution… — Dorian Yates Copy Share Image
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
“High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“A burning desire to be and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and therefore, not geniuses. One… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“From the very beginning Ihad felt a definite contact with Yeamon, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is cheap in this… — hunter s. thompson Copy Share Image
“…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always… — Homer Copy Share Image
Thank the Lord for a mother who was a general as well as a Latter-day Saint; who realized that it was a… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Dunga has a very aggressive style with a good deal of desire and ambition to win. He wants that to resonate throughout… — Lucas Moura Copy Share Image
If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I could remember it. But I couldn’t see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is… — John Green Copy Share Image
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“As ever, his grief made my heart ache. "Ambition is a dangerous thing," I murmured. "One can harbor it unknowing, only to… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
I wanted to act and do good work with good people. I wanted to be a part of good content. That was… — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“Having a Great Ambition is also a Meditation. When our efforts are focussed sincerely, even during sleep, our brains will work on… — Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a… — Nayantara Sahgal Copy Share Image
Our ambition isn't just to be big, it's to be listened to and supported by people. And to have the success -… — Stromae Copy Share Image
I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life,… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
England is an incredible breeding ground for talent, yet it finds it really hard to sustain it or keep it. Once you… — Eugene Souleiman Copy Share Image
I know what I want and know my values, and therefore, it's easy to take hard choices when you know what the… — Ada Hegerberg Copy Share Image
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself.… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
The price of success is hard work, dedication and determination to the endeavor which he loves utmost and wants it to be… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“I knew too well the nature of life's distractions and enticements-how the piecemeal progress of our hopes and ambitions commands our undivided… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
I've got ambitions. I've always been very ambitious. But I think there's something nice about not saying all of my dreams, in… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
WE NEED MORE OF THOSE AND IF YOU STILL HATE THE WORD, IT IS NOT THE WORD THAT IS IMPORTANT. IT'S THE… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“When you set man against the vastness of the cosmos, the only thing left is humility, a virtue he often discards in… — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you… — David Friedman Copy Share Image