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  • The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

    Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016
  • 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.

  • I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

  • On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

    "Q&A with T. Boone Pickens". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.
  • My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

  • There is still a fundamental misunderstanding, when it comes to observing that when someone is black and someone is white, then that difference is enough to warrant the idea that they shouldn't be together. We are so much more alike in nature than we are different, and my ambition with the roles I choose to do is to break down that prejudice, by showing how much I - as a man - am just a man.

    Ambition   Men   Ideas  
    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

    Ambition   Men   Waiting  
    Steven Brust (2003). “The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha”, p.83, Macmillan
  • All I can say is that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

  • Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

    Work   Failure   Ambition  
    "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)
  • From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die - and I go on, non-stop, going forward with life. Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

    Regret   Ambition   Done  
    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.25, Tuttle Publishing
  • My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.

    Ambition   Giving   Alive  
  • If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

  • It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.

    Book   Ambition   Effort  
    William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage
  • My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

    Ambition   Play   Two  
  • I don't want to be poor. I don't want to be rich to the extent that all I care about is keeping my job. I don't care enough about keeping my job right now. That's good. That makes effective at what I do. I don't want to be frightened of getting fired. So to that end I suppose my ambitions are that I spend less than I earn.

    Jobs   Ambition   Care  
    "Craig Ferguson: We Need A New 'Late Shift'" by Kevin Kelly, filmschoolrejects.com. August 10, 2009.
  • 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.

  • Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

    James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382
  • At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto something that was bigger, different than anything I had ever imagined, which was actually being involved with other people. I just don't live the average artist's life.

    Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. May 8, 2007.
  • The desire to reach hearts is wise

    Wise   Heart   Ambition  
    Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016
  • I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

  • 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.

  • If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

    John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.92
  • The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

  • Public people are definitely captives. It wasn't really my ambition, but that's what happened. If I could find another word that would be more precise, I'd tell that I'm captive of my need for acknowledgement. People ask me, "Isn't it terrible to be famous?" Not for me! I sort of need it. To be honest, I always enjoyed it. It's as if it gave me some structure. It's as if I needed someone else's eyes to look at myself.

    Eye   Ambition   People  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.

    "Learning is Continuous" by Padma Srinivasan, www.thehindu.com. September 04, 2001.
  • There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.

    Running   Real   Ambition  
  • The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

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