#ambition

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#breathe #desires #goals #inspirational #leader

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! ↗

— Daniel Boone

#almighty #ambition #associates #banish #goodness

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure. ↗

— George W. Bush

#ambitious #failure #hope #hopeful #i

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#ambition #behind #conscious #fiercely #i

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#ambition #engage #fear #love #need

I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work. ↗

— Brian Cox

#acting #actor #ambition #because #being

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#ambition #become #before #caring #every

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#carried #extreme #great #great minds #idol

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. ↗

— Joseph Story

#advisable #ambition #consciousness #dangers #deemed

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. ↗

— Philip Levine

#been #carried #had #her #mother