#ambition

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#any #big #i #mainstream #movies

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#ambition #become #before #caring #every

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet. ↗

— Barney Frank

#another #becomes #before #essential #i

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#carried #extreme #great #great minds #idol

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#ambition #be strong #bury #destroys #else

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#ambition #does #fantasy #man #without

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#fortune #get #helped #him #his

Ambition is not a vice of little people. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#little #little people #people #vice

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing. ↗

— Van Morrison

#doing #gigs #i #out #play

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ambition #among #aphorism #book #does