#ambition

Money as the sole ambition has no value. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#money #purpose-of-life #value #wealth #life

Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him. ↗

— John Lanchester

#demands #life #life

Status quo or grow: You are in control of your future. ↗

— Mary Mihalic

#development #drive #growth #motivation #strive

In the days when I was ambitious I worked out a very pretty little plan for conquering the whole earth and rearranging things as they out to be; and when, in the end, everything became so good it almost began to be boring, then I was going to stuff my pockets with as much money as I could lay hands on and creep away, vanish in some cosmopolis and sit at a corner cafe and drink absinthe and enjoy seeing how everything went to the devil as soon as I wasn't on the scene any more. ↗

— Hjalmar Söderberg

#ambition #global-domination #money

... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn't ignore the little voice in my head that said maybe I was supposed to shed halfway, and do something significant. Contribute something. Accomplish something. Choose. Be. ↗

— Therese Anne Fowler

#zelda-fitzgerald #respect

Those who seize the day become seriously rich. ↗

— Richard Koch

#creativity #motivation #productivity #motivational

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#enjoyed #great #i #sportsman #youngster

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. ↗

— Eydie Gorme

#ambitious #before #children #definitely #got

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens. ↗

— Sheldon Jackson

#ambition #american #american citizens #among #best

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#makes #more #need #slaves #than