#ambition

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

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#bounty #given #ostentation #pride #rather

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy. ↗

— Caroll Shelby

#contemporaries #could #get #got #had

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along. ↗

— Caroll Shelby

#ambition #avenue #build #car #cars

It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#personal #personal ambitions #someone #take #you

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to. ↗

— Ethan Coen

#being #choose #come #design #different

...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know... ↗

— John Geddes

#balanced-life #contentment #self #life

Without ambition, no goal can be met. ↗

— Kya Aliana

#believe #goals #good #great #inspirational

The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition ↗

— Bruce Lee

#ambition

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The boy is walking through the street of his town. He is thinking of the future and of the figure he will cut in the world. Ambitions and regrets awake within him. Suddenly something happens; he stops under a tree and waits as for a voice calling his name. Ghosts of old things creep into his consciousness; the voices outside of himself whisper a message concerning the limitations of life. From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy. With a little gasp he sees himself as merely a leaf blown by the wind through the streets of his village. He knows that in spite of all the stout talk of his fellows he must live and die in uncertainty, a thing blown by the winds, a thing destined like corn to wilt in the sun. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#future #ghosts #life #manhood #nothingness