#ambition

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

Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#change #crazy #think #world #change

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 others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#ennui #life #life

Put work into your dreams. ↗

— Lesley D. Nurse

#dreams #intimacy #marriage #dreams

Never give up. It's like breathing - once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#desires #dreams #drive #effort #hope

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#determination #dreams #justice #martin-luther-king-jr #social-change

Ambition is the bridge between reality and living a dream. ↗

— Addoo S. Mukhtar

#dreams