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Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.
I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.
Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.
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.
I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.
My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.
As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should be deprived of his ambitions.
When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.
If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.
But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.
The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.
Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top.
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.
My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to promise but action is different.
Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know.
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I'm doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.
The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
This dope money here is Lil Treys scholarship Cause aint no to tuition for havin no ambition And aint no loans for sittin your ass at home
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.
True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.
If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.
... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.