Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases

When someone threatens me, I don’t threaten them back. Bad people don’t respond to threats. They respond to violence. The only time I point a gun at someone is when I’m going to shoot that person.

A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.

I have always observed that when any person is ambitious, then you can always get to see the perfect example of both climbings as well as creeping being performed in a very similar position together.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition – plowing straight ahead, come what may.

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy

On his character Dean in Blue Valentine: It’s sad, because he just doesn’t have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter, which should be enough but doesn’t seem to be enough in this case.

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host

His ambition for victory sets Mourinho apart. He wants to win every game, so he prepares all the smallest details; in training, at the game, everything. I loved to work with him.

I don’t know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that’s what I wanted to do.

My only sentiment is to win.

If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left

One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances

Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government

The beauty of literature is in its ambiguity

Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am

Does the law exist for the purpose of furthering the ambitions of those who have sworn to uphold the law, or is it seriously to be considered as a moral, unifying force, the health and strength of a nation?

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

It is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure

You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something

Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

In our personal ambitions, we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up, or else all go down as one people.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

An average person with average talent, ambition, and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society if that person has clear, focused goals.

I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.

A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I think the power of the mind is amazing, and we’ve barely scratched the surface of what it can do.

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.

I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man…?

My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow’s planes

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.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

I just want to keep doing what I’m doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny

As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I said, Well, maybe I can lend a voice to this with an equal passion. You realize how lucky we are and how destructive we’ve been and what little regard we have for the natural world.

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.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Those who have tried to fly will walk looking at the sky, because they have been there and want to return.

I want to do more movies, I want to have babies and I want to continue to build the behemoth that is Haus Laboratories into the makeup company of my dreams.

Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in the second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck

I want to be an inspiration to the next generation

Every girl, no matter where she lives, deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of her.

I don’t want to be just a rapper; I want to be an artist

Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside. 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.

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.

My dad wanted me to have a better life than he had ever had. He wanted us to succeed so badly. And I never wanted to let him down.

Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

I want to be world champion, but not to change the perception of others towards me or to achieve greatness like they say, but rather, to reach the goal with my national team and to add a world cup to my list of titles.

I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team – not just on me.

I made sacrifices leaving Argentina, leaving my family to begin a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for soccer, to achieve my dream

I find myself fascinating

Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

All I dreamed of when I became a footballer was to play for a club as big as Real Madrid. It’s maybe the most famous and best club in the history of football.

I have never doubted myself even if others did, I always believed I could get to where I am today and thank God this came true.

I’m just trying to create something timeless.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

I would change all my individual trophies for that trophy of World Cup champion.

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

You don’t have to be a giant to play football, I’m happy with where I am. I am happy with where I am and I never cared what anyone else said, it only further motivated me.

Fight for your dreams and success. This is what has always guided me.

If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

When I came to England, I was dreaming about winning titles.

I will fight to be here as much as possible. I only have Madrid in my head.

There is no magic to achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices, and persistence.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

It’s about leaving something better for our kids. That’s how we’ve always moved this country forward, by all of us coming together on behalf of our children, folks who volunteer to coach that team, to teach that Sunday school class, because they know it takes a village.

First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.

You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.

I just save my money, man. I don’t even try to enjoy it like these other rappers; they having fun and they lit, but they gon’ be broke later on. I be savin’, I be chillin’. It feels good to know I got it, but it feel better to know I’ma keep it too.

When you are struggling and you start thinking about giving up, I want you to remember something that my husband and I have talked about since we first started this journey nearly a decade ago, something that has carried us through every moment in this White House and every moment of our lives, and that is the power of hope—the belief that something better is always possible if you’re willing to work for it and fight for it.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.

Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.

The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible.

In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.

I’m willing to take any amount of pain to win.

I want to be the best driver there has ever been.

If you cheat yourself in practice, you’ll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you’ll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.

Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don’t do that by having a service people pay for.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

We Don’t Build Services to Make Money, We Make Money To Build Services.

I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you’re building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakes.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

Entrepreneurship is about creating change, not just companies.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Quality is everyone’s responsibility.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

The question isn’t, ‘What do we want to know about people?’ It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves?

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us.

Words are our only homeland.

We are all travelers seeking solace in the land of dreams.

I want to be a superhero dad to where my kids feel like everything I do is nothing wrong.

The true prison is the one within our minds.

Our roots are deep, and our branches reach for the sky.

From the bottom, all I know is the struggle. Can’t get no job, so all I know is the hustle.

I will not be silenced; my words will echo through time.

Hope is the key to every locked door.

Hopefully, the sacrifices we making today can change tomorrow

Every time I plant a tree, I plant myself.

When you lose, you get up, you make mistakes and you learn. And then you become a better player.

We are people with wings, lost among the birds.

Little by little, I’m getting better all the time. I’ve not lost the passion to play.

We have a country of words. Speak, speak so I can put my road on the stone of a stone.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.

If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

There is no ‘I’ in team, but there is in win.