Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp’s? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition?
I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.
I have always had an ambition to do ‘Dancing with the Stars.’
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
My main ambition as a teenager was to somehow resurrect the dark-minded writer Franz Kafka and become his girlfriend.
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions… Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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.
I am attracted to these outsider characters who just don’t belong anywhere, and who are operating in worlds they sort of don’t fit, coupled with huge ambitions.
People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
I had no ambition to be a football coach. I wanted to be a spy for MI5 or MI6.
Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
I would say if you do have ambitions, don’t just wait around. Go out and make yourself as well-qualified as possible so you can take that rare opportunity when it comes along.
Europe must not distance itself from Africa’s universal ambitions.
I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have accomplished it.
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
My mom sacrificed everything for my brother and me. She taught me so many things – about life, love, faith, ambition, and family – and she instilled in me the desire to have my own kids one day.
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
Ambition interests me because it’s such a surefire indicator of damage.
If we are going to realise our ambition of ending the harmful practices of FGM and forced marriage, the role of young people in pushing for change is crucial. We also need to ensure that everyone, from government to civil society, is playing their part.
I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.
I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
I’ve tried to recognize my wife’s individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.
Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names… Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn’t really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny – yet something that seemed real rock ‘n’ roll… something that acknowledged my ambition.
But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
I’m supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project’s ambition – to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship – is something I feel strongly about.
I’ve always had high ambitions and aspirations.
I never thought of breaking a record. The only ambition I had was to become the fastest century maker for India, which I did when I broke Azharuddin’s record.
What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ‘eternity’; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book.
My ambition is only to develop Andhra Pradesh.
It’s an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.
Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
I would have enjoyed playing some county cricket and learning my art that way, but I never had any ambitions at all to play for England, that’s for sure.
My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don’t recognize.
Our ambition is to build a globally competitive and futuristic transportation system in India that will support and accelerate a nation on the move.
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the barefooted child and the doting mother are afforded a holistic environment to realise their dreams and ambitions.
TV has a three storyline structure, but ‘The Killing’ takes on that structure with such ambition.
My only ambition is to grow as a musician.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you’re interests are and ambitions.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that’s a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
