Pastoral Resources

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Ambition aspires to descend.

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

My ambition is to be happy.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.