ambition

Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.

Every flower blooms at a different pace.

Remember how far you__e come, and you won__ have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.

You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'" (2009)]

The belief in their actions can mend constellations. The ambition in their thirst for knowledge can both create and destroy.

In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

'Chef' is a dish of arroz con pollo served with a smile but not much style. The critic in the film would give it a low grade, for agreeability without ambition.