Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life. Your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood.
One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
I love the youth of the Church. I have said again and again that I think we have never had a better generation than this. How grateful I am for your integrity, for your ambition to train your minds and your hands to do good work, for your love of the word of the Lord, and for your desire to walk in paths of virtue and truth and goodness.
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have. . . a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.
My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team in the world.
. . . indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions. . . Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in the State administrations as are capable of preferring their own emolument and advancement to the public weal.
Feminist art may. . . though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme. . . should we call it 'joy'?
I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will. Understand that they are very ambitious; but their ambition, first and foremost, is for the company's success. They realize that the most important step they must make to become a Level 5 leader is to subjugate their ego to the company's performance. When asked for interviews, these leaders will agree only if it's about the company and not about them.
We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.
One of my career ambitions was fulfilled working with John [Hurt]. I loved his work long before I ever had the idea of being an actor, so I was nervous to meet him. I was like a fanboy, like that annoying character on 'Saturday Night Live'. I'm sitting there. 'Do you remember when you were in 'Midnight Express'? Remember that scene you were in?' And he doesn't disappoint.
A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.