Ambition Quote by May Sarton Download Open image “What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.” — May Sarton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Desire Made Motivation
We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are. — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we ourselves make of what has been made of us. — Jan Kott Copy Share Image
If we’re free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Our creator did not create our raw material, but manipulated that which already existed. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Sometimes the only thing which truly tempts us is the thing which we cannot have. — Liz Carlyle Copy Share Image
“We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past.” — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I felt pain like an assault, The old pain again When the world thrusts itself inside, When we have to take in the outside,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I see you with that shell Held to your sensitive abstracted ear, Hunting the ocean’s rumor till you hear it well, Until you can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman 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 so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson 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 big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image