#ambition

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#among #attractive #elements #equally #fair

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#art #artist #eyes #love #master

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person. ↗

— David Baldacci

#ambition #beauty-pageants #ruthlessness #sarcasm #satire

He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and thrive. Not everyone needed the same driving ambition that had fueled him. That had led him to being possibly the richest man in London without a title in his lineage -- all earned in under a decade. That had given him the power to change lives. But a person needed to have the drive to change his own life. ↗

— Anne Mallory

#drive #respect #survival #change

I've put out a lot of little roots these two years," Anne told the moon, "and when I'm pulled up they're going to hurt a great deal. But it's best to go, I think, and, as Marilla says, there's no good reason why I shouldn't. I must get out all my ambitions and dust them. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#change #change

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day. ↗

— Georg Solti

#awakened #day #experience #musical #never

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#ambition #desire

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#complex #every #fascinating #interesting #interesting people

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions. ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#eternal-champion #madman #courage

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go. ↗

— Charles Cotton

#below #blessings #go #i #like