#ambition

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. ↗

— Paul Auster

#children #could #going #guess #however

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#infirmity #last #minds #noble

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition. ↗

— Terry Josephson

#get #inexperience #never #way

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#avarice #masked

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#probably #scale

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#dream #engine

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#begets #dependence #designs #fit #germ

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#ambition #cannot #cured #exalted #favour

I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#ambitious #australia #delusion #delusional #desire

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. ↗

— John Ruskin

#others #restlessness #slaves #some #their