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No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.Collection: Ambition
Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer. However, if you can’t see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it.Collection: Ambition
If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.Collection: Ambition
The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitionsCollection: Ambition
Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.Collection: Ambition
My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.Collection: Ambition
My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.Collection: 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.Collection: Ambition
We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.Collection: Ambition
To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.Collection: Ambition
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.Collection: Ambition
In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.Collection: Ambition
Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.Collection: Ambition
A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.Collection: Ambition
Ambition has no rest.Collection: Ambition
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the hidden life is by means of symbol; if it were not for the recurring evidence of murder – the disemboweled rabbits, the headless flickers, the torn squirrels – we should forever imagine our cats to be simple pets whose highest ambition is to sleep in the best soft chair, whose worst crime is to sharpen their claws on carpeting.Collection: Ambition
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.Collection: Ambition
Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.Collection: Ambition
The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.Collection: Ambition
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.Collection: Ambition
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.Collection: Ambition
There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.Collection: Ambition
A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.Collection: Ambition
From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived in the jungle with natives and lots of wild animals, and I couldn’t imagine anything better than that! Unlike other little boys, most of whom changed their minds about what they want to be several times as they grew older, I never wavered from this ambition.Collection: Ambition
Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land -movie - Karate kid"What is the calculus of innovation?" "The calculus of innovation is really quite simple: knowledge drives innovation, innovation drives productivity, productivity drives our economic growth."Collection: Ambition
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.Collection: Ambition
A man can't just sit around.Collection: Ambition
This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.Collection: Ambition
The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.Collection: Ambition
It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.Collection: Ambition
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public.Collection: Ambition
If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.Collection: Ambition
Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.Collection: Ambition
As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.Collection: Ambition
Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.Collection: Ambition
If the idea is you're working at a job solely to pay the bills because you have ambitions to do something else, if you're not actively trying to do that other thing, you've gotta make sure you're doing that. Sometimes you've gotta take away your own safety net. But if you feel miserable in a day job, in any job, get out of that. Look for something else. Stay in that job until you have the other thing set up, and then go to that other thing. But sometimes you've just got to jump out with a parachute and trust that you're going to land someplace safe.Collection: Ambition
The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.Collection: Ambition
Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?Collection: Ambition
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.Collection: Ambition
News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.Collection: Ambition
At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.Collection: Ambition
The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager.Collection: Ambition
It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.Collection: Ambition
Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.Collection: Ambition
Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In this wilderness cries the voice of Patrick White, Australian extraordinary, who has quite other, more austere and indeed prophetic ambitions. (...) (H)is failures are certainly the equivalent, and perhaps the measure, of other men's success.Collection: Ambition
As a woman, you feel that you shouldnt want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasnt it?Collection: Ambition
I think you're never going to get somewhere ambitious if you don't start out with great ambitions. What I would say is: we got a start. That to me is a very significant thing. Here we were, a historic meeting to talk about climate change.Collection: Ambition
The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with eroticism, demanding more indulgence more often until a degenerative spiral captures the soul and drags us on a never ending descent into deeper patterns of immorality and illicit behaviour... Lust goes beyond the sexual. Lust can show itself in a variety of forms: covetousness, gluttony, drunkeness, power hunger, or unbridled ambition, to name a fewCollection: Ambition