#ambition

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#boredom #die #exhaustion #got #great

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#chose #division #everyone #forgiveness #i

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#castles #compatible #homely #i #muse

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#cause #earth #enterprise #grand #grand thing

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#fingers #heavens #heel #her #nailed

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#drowned #get #just #made #more

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. ↗

— Brian Eno

#ambition #art #beginning #century #considered

I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger. ↗

— Mike Tice

#had #i #same #younger

I am still full of ambition. ↗

— Jan Timman

#ambition #full #i #i am #still

The incentive to ambition is the love of power. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#incentive #love #power