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My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.
I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.
This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.
Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.
Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by Thee.
All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.
My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
I see myself as having fulfilled a lot of my ambition. All the things I dreamed of achieving, I've achieved for the most part.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
My ambition in the cinema, since I came across it, was to play Chance... I have realized that ambition, and so I have no more.
His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.
As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly.
The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.
The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!
I have no ambition whatsoever. I don't know whether that's because I'm afraid of losing, or of failure - of not being the best.
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
As a woman, you feel that you shouldnt want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasnt it?
I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.
Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pipeline for its nuclear ambitions.
We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame
In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.
My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.
The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.
Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition?
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.
It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
It's funny how getting older - or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades - can make you change your ambitions.
Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.