The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.

I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

I have no burning ambitions, and I can honestly say the thing I love most is 'Bake Off.' That will always come first.

Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.

My main ambition as a teenager was to somehow resurrect the dark-minded writer Franz Kafka and become his girlfriend.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

I loved him so much, loved his fearlessness, his strength, even the ambition that would someday take him away from me.

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

If I wish to be well in my mind, then I must write, and there is no cure for my ambition, and thank the Lord for that.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.

In football it is impossible to win every match but we must do everything to show in every game that we have ambition.

The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

I have to make sure I stay focused and have the same ambition I've always had and work hard - that's the key to success.

I was going to university to study psychology and my big ambition in life was to open treatment rooms for psychotherapy.

I've never been someone who loves a car and when I was young I didn't have the ambition of a car or something like that.

Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.

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