#ambition

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. ↗

— James Madison

#counteract #made #must

My ambition is to be happy. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#be happy #happy

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

— John McCarthy

#his #spider #web #wide #world

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#blair #cannot #him #his #lose

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#attention #center #drive #inside #me

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country, which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#hatred #legend #mystery #power #understanding

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#detached #evolution #living #materialistic #nature

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#ambition #australian #circus #football #i

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure. ↗

— George W. Bush

#ambitious #failure #hope #hopeful #i