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Tag Name "Ambition" (1429)

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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.
Thomas Merton
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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I always wonder what drives us as Artists.
Diana Krall
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Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
Roger L'Estrange
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Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.
Michael Schumacher
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If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
Werner Herzog
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...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
John Green
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You have to continue to learn. That's how you develop. So the people who show that curiosity, that ambition, that willingness to do what it takes to improve and to get better, they're the people who are going to be successful in the long term.
Roger Goodell
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My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.
Herbert Hoover
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I never had any boyhood ambitions.
Daniel Craig
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My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.
Venus Williams
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Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.
Romola Garai
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We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination.
Hassan al-Banna
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Pearl Bailey
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
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Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.
Candace Bushnell
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There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.
Graham T. Allison
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The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
Alex Haley
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition
William James
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Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
Bear Grylls
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The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.
Malala Yousafzai
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I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do
Tracey Ullman
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I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.
Joyce Giraud
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