#ambition

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#ambition #doing #eileen #feldman #i

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#ambition #country #each #every #give

An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#always #ambition #humility #outweigh #should

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#been #bulk #countries #indeed #made

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#daughters #mothers #one thing #overpowering #share

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#alone #ambition #best #employed #enjoyed

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humanity #nothing #screwtape #soul #ambition

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. ↗

— Robert Burton

#develop #efficient #few #men #power

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all. ↗

— Bob Marley

#black #chinese #everyone #happen #i

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#anxiety #contemporary