#ambition

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#contribution #create #further #general #kind

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

Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us. ↗

— Alex Rogers

#courage #dreams #inspiration #life #truth

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

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#hopes #humiliation #life #nature #perspective

Money as the sole ambition has no value. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

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

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! ↗

— William Hague

#best #self-knowledge #tempered

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#makes #more #need #slaves #than

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself. ↗