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Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.

What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God.

If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.

My ambition is always to get better and better.

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.

Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.

Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

Valuing time with your family does not mean you've lost your ambition. Define success for yourself.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Never allow anyone to take YOUR spirit away from you.