#ambition

Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act. ↗

— Damien Echols

#curiosity #god #mysterious #death

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed. ↗

— Penelope Ann Miller

#changed #children #family #got #had

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best. ↗

— Rob Morrow

#awakens #best #better #conquest #contribution

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

— Alexander Pope

#destroy #knave #make #makes #patriot

Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

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

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

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134 ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#courage #determination #trying #courage

To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#exploration #horror #inspirational #death

My dreams had to be His dreams, the ones He placed in my heart. They couldn't be the ones I thought I should have, or needed for the purpose of making other people like me. ↗

— Stormie Omartian

#dreams #god-s-will #dreams