#ambition

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. ↗

— James Madison

#counteract #made #must

I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#american #degree #got #hard #hard work

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#against #ambition #another #attack #first

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

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing. ↗

— Van Morrison

#doing #gigs #i #out #play

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#among #become #cannot #claim #disputes

I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#area #definitely #i #sing

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ambition #among #aphorism #book #does

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