In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.
It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a relief to know that I could now experience what you were experiencing yourself. I am so afraid that they are breaking your spirit.
. . . no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.
That has always been my biggest ambition. To bring people together. To achieve a family spirit. Because then, you can actually do anything, because people are open to what they feel is real.
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man. . . ?
There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.
Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society. Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual - this freedom is necessary for the individual.
Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.
I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.
Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.
Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.
I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!
Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.
To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There, one is truly without a name, without ambition, without help; on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness.