Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
Muhammad Yunus

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
Ken Kesey

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.
Ken Kesey

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France

There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. Wilson

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson

He lives with his creativity in high gear.
John Travolta

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
Mickey Rourke

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Thomas Hardy

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
Bo Jackson

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

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
Bo Jackson

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.
Bo Jackson

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
Grover Cleveland

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
George Matthew Adams

In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.
Maurice Strong

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
Al Sharpton

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
Al Sharpton

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
James M. Barrie