The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ‚eternity‘; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

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.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

I always wanted more – more of everything.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

During a few days‘ halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

I came to New York to be a fine artist – that was my ambition.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.