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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.
I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.
I don't look in the mirror and see a president of the United States. I don't have that ambition.
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair.
Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.
I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy.
Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.
My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.
Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.
It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'
My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.
We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.
It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.
I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.
I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.
Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.
My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.
Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.
When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
I love my work, but my home life is so fulfilling that I don't tend to be driven by work ambitions.
I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Valuing time with your family does not mean you've lost your ambition. Define success for yourself.
From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.
Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]
... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.