#ambition

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#destroy #knave #make #makes #patriot

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#avarice #cruelty #fluid #founded #lends

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. ↗

— Quintilian

#cause #itself #often #though #times

Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#dreams #funny #future #inspirational-quotes #life

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me. ↗

— Graham Roberts

#back #capacity #gave #give #go

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#contribution #create #further #general #kind

This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#the-feudal-spirit #the-peter-principle #age

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

— Criss Jami

#beauty #contentment #enjoyment #happiness #joy

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art. ↗

— Kit Williams

#art #beautiful #confound #create #engineering

There comes a time in everyone’s life—and I do mean in everyone’s life—when you ask yourself what it is that you’ve been doing with your life. Sometimes you even realize that whatever you’ve been doing all your life, you’ve been doing it wrong. Dead wrong… Son, you want that realization to hit you when you’re 70? Or 50? Or when you’re still young, with your whole life still ahead of you? ↗

— Ali Sheikh

#coming-of-age #life #work #age