There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.