Pastoral Resources

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

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

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.