Zitat des Tages über Ambition:
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
I never thought of breaking a record. The only ambition I had was to become the fastest century maker for India, which I did when I broke Azharuddin's record.
The stoic drama 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard's complexion. It's a low-blood-pressure version of the kind of thing James M. Cain used to do in his sleep, and its filmmaking accomplishment is as minimalist as its narrative ambition is minimal.
Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.
As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life.
I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.
Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.
I don't look in the mirror and see a president of the United States. I don't have that ambition.
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
I was happy when I got into film school. I'd simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in - nothing else - although I do believe they shouldn't have accepted me. I was a complete idiot. I can't understand why they took me. Probably because I'd tried three times.
I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.
I feel that my drive and ambition is more American, while the passionate, laid-back side of me is all Brazilian.
You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
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.
I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.
I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
