#ambition

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. ↗

— Quintilian

#cause #itself #often #though #times

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#contribution #create #further #general #kind

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #contentment #enjoyment #happiness #joy

There comes a time in everyone’s life—and I do mean in everyone’s life—when you ask yourself what it is that you’ve been doing with your life. Sometimes you even realize that whatever you’ve been doing all your life, you’ve been doing it wrong. Dead wrong… Son, you want that realization to hit you when you’re 70? Or 50? Or when you’re still young, with your whole life still ahead of you? ↗

— Ali Sheikh

#coming-of-age #life #work #age

Ambition is not a vice of little people. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#little #little people #people #vice

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing. ↗

— Van Morrison

#doing #gigs #i #out #play

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#because #books #good #had #high

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. ↗

— Riccardo Muti

#commitment #more #nobility #ostentation #rather

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ↗

— Petrarch

#anger #avarice #banished #enjoy #envy

There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#ambition #commons #day #go #house