In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.
Inspirational Competition Quotes to Fuel Your Drive to Succeed - page 6
You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home!
Tyler Ward
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.
George Stillman Hillard
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
Sugar Ray Leonard
That sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important
Hazel Blears
Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well.
Roberta Williams
While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.
In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential...Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.
Renee Fleming
We listen so much to everybody - more than ever, because we have a kabillion voices whose opinion we can access - and we care so much if everybody agrees with us. To bust through all of the noise is very challenging.
Alicia Keys
It's sad, because he just doesn't have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter — which should be enough but doesn't seem to be enough in this case.
Ryan Gosling
Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.
Ben Stein
But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.
Steve Forbert
There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.
Aya Cash
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know
Terrence Howard
Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
Danger Mouse
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
