"I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition."

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."

"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing."

"Ambition can creep as well as soar."

"He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen"

"There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence"

"My ambition is handicapped by laziness"

"Wandering aimlessly, broken by my thoughts, Which slowly sharpened daggers at my heart"

"A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be."

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

"An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition."

"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."

"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."

"My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals."

"To go out there and play and have fun and hopefully win a championship. That's my goal."

"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."

"We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good."

"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible"

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."

"The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made."

If you aim at nothing, you will hit every time

Unquestionably man has his will – but woman has her way!

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world without.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.