#ambition

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#delusion #folly #illusion #preserve #pursuit

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#begets #dependence #designs #fit #germ

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#be happy #desire #end #enterprise #every

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#ambition #cannot #cured #exalted #favour

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#california #common #exist #found #grew

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#coach #high #high school #i #i do

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#enough #excuse #having #lazy #poor

I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ambitious #australia #delusion #delusional #desire

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. ↗

— John Ruskin

#others #restlessness #slaves #some #their

Housewife: a position requiring great ambition to fill. Must have the determination to scrub mold, the good taste to distribute a checking account, and the good will to repeat this at a maid service or department store after her husband starts coming home drunk. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #marriage #wife #funny