At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
Potential is an excuse to procrastinate; Ambition is a means to thrive.
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.
Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.
I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".
I was a reasonably good student in college. . . My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.
Reach your ambition as high as the skies! Dream it as high as the skies! Because if you're fell, you're gonna fall among of the stars!!
It hasn't always easy to combine these two competing ambitions and, in retrospect, it's a shame no one steered me towards science communications, which I think would have suited me down to the ground. But careers advice has largely been absent from my life, so I have pretty much made it up as I've gone along!
The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
I think your ambition for something changes as you go.
If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.
Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.
With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
What great changes have not been ambitious?
Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die.