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It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.
Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life.
there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.
Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.
Steer clear of pot. It's an ambition zapper. Wait till you've made it. When you're 45 buy a bong. But for now, buy a suit.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.
Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.
I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.
There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.
We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'.
There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.
I always play to win, as I proved at AC Milan, Real Madrid, Roma and Juventus. I want my players to have the same ambition.
When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me to make.
Here is the Divine Dichotomy... The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'. Just be where you choose to get!' It's that simple.
Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.
To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.
Stop wishing & start doing! Your lack of effort won't affect a true hustlers ambition. Perseverance through adversity is key.
Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.
My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.