#ambition

Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? My hopes of being numbered in the band who have merged all ambitions in the glorious one of bettering their race - of carrying knowledge into the realms of ignorance - of substituting peace for war - freedom for bondage - religion for superstition - the hope of heaven for the fear of hell? Must I relinquish that? It is dearer than the blood in my veins. It is what I have to look forward to, and to live for. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#goals-in-life #freedom

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#ambition #fervent #few #greatest #instructions

When ambition ends, happiness begins. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#begins #ends #happiness

Ambition is not a vice of little people. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#little #little people #people #vice

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#against #always #ambition #been #first

I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#captain #driven #good #i #i do

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#called #inferiority #origin #otherwise #sense

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ↗

— Petrarch

#anger #avarice #banished #enjoy #envy

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize. ↗

— Alexandra Roach

#become #chameleon #like #recognize #those

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#dream #engine