Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition.
Meanness looks through one eye only, ambition is blind.
It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever.
The quest of the alchemists to turn lead into gold is a metaphor for our attempts to turn the base metal of ourselves, that person hooked on consumerism, filled with angst and ambition, into the gold of what we can be and really are.
In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It's never easier to live being as weaker one!
My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be.
I think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I'm really a lucky man. I've always accepted whatever I was in, whether it was driving a taxi or entertaining. The jet set might not enjoy what I do, but I deal with the average person.
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no...
I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in poli...
I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and joys of others only in their relationship to me, as food to sustain my spiritual powers. I am no longer capable of loosing my head in love, Ambition ...
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.
He who opens his heart for ambition, closes it for the rest.
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
Narcissistic personality disorder is named for Narcissus, from Greek mythology, who fell in love with his own reflection. Freud used the term to describe persons who were self-absorbed, and psychoanalysts have focused on the narcissist's need to bols...
I was shocked at the revelation of her vaulting ambition, her greed. I should have loathed her or, knowing what kind of a person she was, I should have realized the futility of any personal attachment, the impossibility of its maturing into something...
If you want to go up in the world, veil ambition with the forms of humanity.
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.
We can always find each other, we girls with secrets.
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
