#ambition

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#levels #lot #nice

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#any #big #i #mainstream #movies

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. ↗

— William Eardley IV

#arrive #path #persistence #success #vehicle

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#ambition #clicked #first #first thing #five

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

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#fading #fame #grave #little #name

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#ambition #book #going #happens #least

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#ambition #fervent #few #greatest #instructions