#ambition

...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know... ↗

— John Geddes

#balanced-life #contentment #self #life

The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart. ↗

— Annie Fellows Johnston

#funny #sophomoric #funny

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old] ↗

— Kresley Cole

#humor #philosophical-musings #humor

People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#fear #inspiration #inspirational

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#despair #despair-hope #encouraging #facet #hope

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#inspirational #life #life-lessons #inspirational

Follow your star, it's never too late, even if it doesn't quite happen as you expect. ↗

— Jemima Pett

#inspirational #inspirational

My second wife left me because she said I was too ambitious. She didn't realize that it is only the dying who are free from ambition. And they probably have the ambition to live. Some men disguise their ambition--that's all. I was in a position to help this young man my wife loved. He soon showed his ambition then. There are different types of ambition - that is all, and my wife found she preferred mine. Because it was limitless. They do not feel the infinite is an unworthy rival, but for a man to prefer the desk of an assistant manager - that is an insult. ↗

— Graham Greene

#love

It is the age of ambition that proves the mettle of men ↗

— José de Alencar

#age

My one ambition is to play a hero. ↗

— Sessue Hayakawa

#hero #play