Quotes about Ambitions

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities. Votes: 3

Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ. Votes: 1

My ambitions have ambitions. Votes: 0

Big results require big ambitions. Votes: 0

I never had any boyhood ambitions. Votes: 0

Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions. Votes: 0

I've always had high ambitions and aspirations. Votes: 0

Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures. Votes: 0

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre. Votes: 0

I've become a captive of my own ambitions. Votes: 0

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing. Votes: 0

Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success. Votes: 0

Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions. Votes: 0

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions. Votes: 0

I have a few personal ambitions for the band. Votes: 0

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. Votes: 0

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions. Votes: 0

I have no ambitions to be a pop star. Votes: 0

Let your ambitions fly. Let nothing hold you back. Votes: 0

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later. Votes: 0

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. Votes: 0

The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires. Votes: 0

Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions. Votes: 0

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands. Votes: 0

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. Votes: 0

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children. Votes: 0

We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions Votes: 0

I must get out all my ambitions and dust them. Votes: 0

There will always be people who think that you have ambitions. Votes: 0

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. Votes: 0

There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person. Votes: 0

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. Votes: 0

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible. Votes: 0

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. Votes: 0

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters Votes: 0

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. Votes: 0

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. Votes: 0

I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar"... Votes: 0

Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward. Votes: 0

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions. Votes: 0

Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are. Votes: 0

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. Votes: 0

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. Votes: 0

I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him. Votes: 0

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. Votes: 0

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious. Votes: 0

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7. Votes: 0

I have ambitions I want to fulfil, to enjoy more success with Brazil. Votes: 0

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions. Votes: 0

To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed. Votes: 0

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. Votes: 0

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions. Votes: 0

Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off? Votes: 0

Never be too absorbed by your own ambitions to encourage those of your family. Votes: 0

It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you. Votes: 0

I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions. Votes: 0

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments. Votes: 0

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become. Votes: 0

Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans. Votes: 0

I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions. Votes: 0

Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision. Votes: 0

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. Votes: 0

Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions. Votes: 0

Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies Votes: 0

I don't want anyone to feel they can't achieve their ambitions if they are dyslexic. Votes: 0

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments. Votes: 0

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans. Votes: 0

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions. Votes: 0

I don't want to go to Portsmouth or any other club that has no ambitions. Votes: 0

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Votes: 0

I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment. Votes: 0

Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you. Votes: 0

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available. Votes: 0

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. Votes: 0

People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs. Votes: 0

People "” running from unhappiness, hiding in power "” are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs. Votes: 0

Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women. Votes: 0

When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions. Votes: 0

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Votes: 0

Dont just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions. Votes: 0

I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll. Votes: 0

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture. Votes: 0

He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical. Votes: 0

I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt. Votes: 0

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain. Votes: 0

The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions Votes: 0

You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions. Votes: 0

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions. Votes: 0

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. Votes: 0

The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions. Votes: 0

Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God . Votes: 0

Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people, Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions Votes: 0

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. Votes: 0

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child. Votes: 0

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions. Votes: 0

not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions. Votes: 0

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses. Votes: 0

No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice. Votes: 0

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions. Votes: 0

My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends. Votes: 0

My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions. Macedon is too small for you. Votes: 0

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Votes: 0

You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions. Votes: 0

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power. Votes: 0

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps Votes: 0

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns. Votes: 0

Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it. Votes: 0

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world. Votes: 0

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable. Votes: 0

I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff. Votes: 0

The only things that all men want is a woman that respects him and challenge his intelligence plus ambitions. Votes: 0

Your aspirations are deeply influenced by your inspirations. Don't produce bad situations due to a lack of creative ambitions. Votes: 0

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living. Votes: 0

Gather the courage to encourage yourself. Your self-motivation will energize you to dream of bigger ambitions to accomplish in life! Votes: 0

Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out. Votes: 0

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! Votes: 0

Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much. Votes: 0

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs. Votes: 0

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Never allow anyone to take YOUR spirit away from you. Votes: 0

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice. Votes: 0

We are not going to waste our reserves and burn them for any political ambitions. We will act very carefully. Votes: 0

Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going. Votes: 0

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions. Votes: 0

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me. Votes: 0

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother. Votes: 0

I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy. Votes: 0

American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men. Votes: 0

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones. Votes: 0

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. Votes: 0

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician. Votes: 0

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast. Votes: 0

If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work. Votes: 0

The trick in minimizing dark moments, no matter how tragic they may be, is to have ambitions placed far beyond them. Votes: 0

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions. Votes: 0

An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator Votes: 0

Here you can easily understand the futility of ambitions and achievements, futility of success and failures, futility of wealth and possessions. Votes: 0

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant. Votes: 0

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer. Votes: 0

I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic. Votes: 0

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body. Votes: 0

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy. Votes: 0

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions. Votes: 0

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse. Votes: 0

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers. Votes: 0

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. Votes: 0

It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too! Votes: 0

Somebody is always suspecting Russia of having some ambitions, there are always those who are trying to misinterpret us or keep something back. Votes: 0

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly. Votes: 0

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life. Votes: 0

Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand. Votes: 0

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism. Votes: 0

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story. Votes: 0

Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition? Votes: 0

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed. Votes: 0

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth. Votes: 0

My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad. Votes: 0

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age? Votes: 0

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie. Votes: 0

the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel. Votes: 0

As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly. Votes: 0

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity. Votes: 0

I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious. Votes: 0

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life. Votes: 0

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family. Votes: 0

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion. Votes: 0

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities. Votes: 0

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character. Votes: 0

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy. Votes: 0

I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far. Votes: 0

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early. Votes: 0

A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years. Votes: 0

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian. Votes: 0

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with. Votes: 0

Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India. Votes: 0

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships. Votes: 0

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride. Votes: 0

Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future. Votes: 0

We have our ambitions [in Dortmund Borussia], and of course I would love to win some titles after some years of finishing second or losing finals. Votes: 0

How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! Votes: 0

One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family. Votes: 0

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When your life flashes through your eyes make sure there is enough to see, until then work hard on your ambitions and live life to the fullest. Votes: 0

I do love doing action, but if I can balance the scale by doing other kinds of films that satisfy my creative ambitions, that feels really important. Votes: 0

I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying and cheating. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

However you define territorial ambitions, it need not be a country that's right next to the U.S. for it to exercise its extraterritorial or territorial ambitions. Votes: 0

No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare. Votes: 0

We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions. Votes: 0

A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions. Votes: 0

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. Votes: 0

Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more. Votes: 0

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard. Votes: 0

Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become clear to see Jesus around us. Votes: 0

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks. Votes: 0

Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or to fulfil some non-existent imperial ambitions. Votes: 0

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Votes: 0

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions. Votes: 0

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek. Votes: 0

When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance. Votes: 0

To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at. Votes: 0

Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us. Votes: 0

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet. Votes: 0

If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion. Votes: 0

Who are you? Where are you coming from? What are your strengths and ambitions? What makes you happy and fulfilled? What are your inherent gifts and talents? Clearly define yourself. Votes: 0

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university. Votes: 0

With the common Iranian threat bringing the Sunni Arab world and Israel closer together, an Israeli-Palestinian peace would go a long way in improving relations and rebuffing Iran's regional ambitions. Votes: 0

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. Votes: 0

I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics. Votes: 0

Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same. Votes: 0

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. Votes: 0

Friendships that are first grounded in the shared professional ambitions - social stuff is built around that - and then you see people pulling each other up as they rise. Votes: 0

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means. Votes: 0

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives. Votes: 0

There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition. Votes: 0

Europeans should be patient and try to find a formula to resolve this nuclear issue. We are determined to remove any ambiguities over our nuclear ambitions and also protect our right. Votes: 0

The difference between a confident person and an unconfident person is simply that the confident person acts on their ambitions and desires and doesn’t let fear of failure stop them. Votes: 0

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born. Votes: 0

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born. Votes: 0

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news. Votes: 0

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions. Votes: 0

Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met. Votes: 0

We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Votes: 0

Life has a time limit. And we are changing all the time. So are our ambitions, desires, and purposes . . . The important thing is to find something that never changes in you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain. Votes: 0

Songs have taught me more about life than school ever has and how to follow my ambitions no matter what they are and how to live my life no matter the trade-off. Votes: 0

We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism. Votes: 0

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils. Votes: 0

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. Votes: 0

The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert. Votes: 0

Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness. Votes: 0

I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way. Votes: 0

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!" Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy. Votes: 0

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am! Votes: 0

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world. Votes: 0

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution. Votes: 0

I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill. Votes: 0

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy. Votes: 0

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center. Votes: 0

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. Votes: 0

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way. Votes: 0

If you try to keep your most sacred ambitions off of your weekly calendar and your most genuine traits off of your resume, then you're missing out on the power of real integrity. Votes: 0

My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too. Votes: 0

In terms of putting the cast together, no problems. You know, the only problem always is just price-point. Our ambitions as we get older, all of us, is to try and do more. Votes: 0

The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war. Votes: 0

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work. Votes: 0

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us. Votes: 0

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security. Votes: 0

The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence. Votes: 0

Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization. Votes: 0

Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be. Votes: 0

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security. Votes: 0

The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Votes: 0

Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been. Votes: 0

It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook. Votes: 0

I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure. Votes: 0

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job. Votes: 0

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise. Votes: 0