#ambition

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#ambition

His ambition was not to become wealthy or to be well known, an image which society for some reason dictates each individual should prescribe to, instead his only ambition was to be at peace with himself, if he could achieve that than anything else he might need would follow. From now on he would question all things in life, but especially the rules and regulations of all authority institutions; he would take nothing on face value and only would accept what he personally knew to undeniably be true. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#choices #freedom-of-expression #inner-peace #questioning-authority #freedom

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#desire #determination #goals #greed #inspirational

Live for each second without hesitation ↗

— Elton John

#life #life

Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him. ↗

— John Lanchester

#demands #life #life

The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddling our way toward frugality, simplicity, liberty, community, until some kind of sane and rational balance is achieved between our ability to love and our cockeyed ambition to conquer and dominate everything in sight. No wonder the galaxies recede from us in every direction, fleeing at velocities that approach the speed of light. They are frightened. We humans are the Terror of the Universe. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#conquer #dominate #greed #love

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat. ↗

— Richard Koch

#career #hard-work #motivation #productivity #work

Unhappiness, the coals that fuel the flame of ambition. ↗

— RTB III

#hope #motivation #motivational

Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off. Anyway, they're the congressmen you can't bribe, the Presidents who aren't politicians, the writers, speakers, scientists, statesmen who aren't just populate grab-bags for a half-dozen women and children. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#genuine #unaffected #men