#ambition

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! ↗

— William Hague

#best #self-knowledge #tempered

My one ambition is to play a hero. ↗

— Sessue Hayakawa

#hero #play

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it. ↗

— William Laud

#ambition #any #become #behold #cheek

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#high #however #human #never #passion

Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act. ↗

— Damien Echols

#curiosity #god #mysterious #death

I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I’ve been known to reach the bed / ideas still famished in my head. ↗

— Roman Payne

#ambition #art #artists #creativity #eating

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. ↗

— Quintilian

#cause #itself #often #though #times

If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#ambition-and-attitude #inspirational #life #taking-chances #attitude

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