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Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.
One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.
Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.
I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.
Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.
I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.
Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.
You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.
I want my daughter to grow up with some kind of ambition. I want her to work and to have that independence.
I never had an ambition to go into modeling, originally. I still can't believe how quickly it all took off.
The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition
I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.
You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.
I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.
My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.
To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.
Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.
Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.
I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.
There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind.
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.
My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.