#ambition

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#achieve #actually #ambition #awkward #course

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#chose #division #everyone #forgiveness #i

Ambition aspires to descend. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#aspires #descend

The truest of all truths is this: You are a child of God. Out of more than six billion people on earth now, He knows your name, what you fear and what you revere. He cares about the things you care about. He wants your happiness and success, and will reach to the farthest corner of the universe to see that you obtain your noblest dreams. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#faith #god #happiness #hope #dreams

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#down #high #higher #lift #little

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#any #ball #ball club #ballplayer #club

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#castles #compatible #homely #i #muse

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#cause #earth #enterprise #grand #grand thing

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#fingers #heavens #heel #her #nailed

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#drowned #get #just #made #more