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You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man
As a woman, you feel that you shouldn't want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn't it?
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.
God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.
Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.
There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.
The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.
When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.
We have given ourselves the means of our ambitions, and in football, when we give ourselves the means, it is always less difficult.
Intention implies assuming you can and have every right to achieve your ambition and that you are powerful enough to make it happen.
But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.
All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.
Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.
Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
I have no interest in feeling like a trophy. Money itself has never been attractive to me; instead, I prefer ambition and integrity.
May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.
Personal ambition is 'I want to be CEO.' Greater vision ambition is, 'I want to lead this company so that people want to work here.'
Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It's a reminder to stay on top of my game. That's not a place I want to go back to.
Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.
The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.
It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too!
Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.
The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, 'What is your ambition?' He said, 'I want to have 10 very good suits.'
I stand in the way of no one's ambition. I only ask that no one stand in the way of the people's well being and the nation's progress.
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do
The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character.
You have to choose whether to take the money or follow your own ambitions, playing in the best league in the world and winning titles.
My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.
Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.
The best job a man could have would be a chef. They'd understand the long hours I work and the drive and ambition it takes to succeed.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
My ambitions are to be the Stoke number one and England number one, but there are other things I want to achieve in my career as well.