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That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.
My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions. Macedon is too small for you.
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job .
What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.
My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.
I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.
The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions
Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.
[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.
A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.
I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.
My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.
Ambition is a very good quality to have. Ambition and the competitive spirit go hand in hand.
'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.
[I like in Kanye West] confidence in him, but also his aggressiveness, ambition and charisma.
I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.
Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
If i can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition i have is nothing but talk.
I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.
The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
If you are calm about your ambitions, you become confident of achieving what you set out to do.
Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.
Will we ever understand the price of ambition, or ever apply our heart to life with submission?
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.
Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.
To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.
Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.
'Intensity' is a good word. It's like ambition, if it's not ambition at expense of someone else.