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Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
I think that people in their 20s actually aren't given enough credit for their ambition.
There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.
Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.
It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.
I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.
Many people wants to be the president...they have ambition. Just ambition is not enough.
I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.
What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.
Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.
An interesting life could always use a little seduction, confidence, ambition, and danger.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.
You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die.
My only ambition was to get to 50, and not regret not having had a crack at being a comic.
I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.
Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.
Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.
Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.
I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.
Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.
As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.
Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.