#ambition

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#determination #dreams #justice #martin-luther-king-jr #social-change

...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#dreams

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#ambition #equal #lack #men #seek

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#curiosity #equality

I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for. ↗

— J.M. August

#dating #dreams #sex #dating

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#endeavors #greed #humanity #ladder #learning

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#biography #larger-than-life #personality #winston-churchill #love

Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#aspirations #dreams #goals #hopes #imagination

What do you mean I have to wait for someone's approval?  I'm someone.  I approve.  So I give myself permission to move forward with my full support! ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#approval #dreams #drive #goals #myself