Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
By just passing through things, I continue to slightly limit myself. I want the jobs that don't say that much. I'm often… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each… — Andrew Forge Copy Share Image
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7. — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
As I got older, my ambitions changed and I wanted to be a graphic designer. In form five, I did Art for… — St. Lucia 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
My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed. — Penelope Ann Miller Copy Share Image
I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
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