#ambition

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. ↗

— James Madison

#counteract #made #must

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#avarice #masked

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web. ↗

— John McCarthy

#his #spider #web #wide #world

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#blair #cannot #him #his #lose

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

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

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#ambition #character #earlier #had #her

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#harmony #human #perfect #perfect harmony #required

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#bounty #given #ostentation #pride #rather