#ambition

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. ↗

— Allen Tate

#according #anything #because #become #been

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#art #artist #eyes #love #master

Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#resistance #art

The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness ↗

— Donald Bradman

#athletes #dignity #sportsman #courage

He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and thrive. Not everyone needed the same driving ambition that had fueled him. That had led him to being possibly the richest man in London without a title in his lineage -- all earned in under a decade. That had given him the power to change lives. But a person needed to have the drive to change his own life. ↗

— Anne Mallory

#drive #respect #survival #change

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. ↗

— Robert Burton

#develop #efficient #few #men #power

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all. ↗

— Bob Marley

#black #chinese #everyone #happen #i

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. ↗

— Philip Massinger

#man #prince #private #vice #virtue

Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#ambition #broadband #cable #content #critical

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#any #cannot #despicable #finds #merit