Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerard Houllier

Lyon's biggest rival is Lyon itself. We need to stay vigilant. Our ambition is to win the treble.

Ellis Peters

Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. Not here - not now.

Peter Mandelson

My fear is that in lowering expectations for Hong Kong, we will cause the overall ambition for the round to fall.

David Dein

None of these games are easy. All the other teams are hard and want to win. Nothing is easy in this draw, but it is our ambition to prove we are one of the best clubs in Europe - and we have yet to get past the quarter-finals, so we have something to prove.

Greg Evans

My ambition is the immediate page of the book I am currently working on. The next word to follow the last. A fresh new idea.

Brian White

My ambition has always been to give them good opportunities and if coming into the family business suited them, then great.

Adam Rickitt

My greatest ambition may sound rather like something from a greeting card, but it is a genuine desire to serve a local community and be a local MP.

Marilyn Monroe

My great ambition is to have people comment on my fine dramatic performances.

Stevie Jackson

When you're 14, 15, and you get together and start making a noise, it is the world opening up. You have that indestructible feeling when you're young. But your ambitions when you are 13 are different when you're 25. By that time, your ambition isn't to be a star anymore; it's to make a living doing music.

Carl Nellis

So it's a legacy issue. What legacy do we want to leave? Are we greedy or are we worried about the future?

Steve Jaksa

We won the first two in this series, so now we want to get greedy and get the sweep.

Elbert Hubbard

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Dick Thornburgh

Greed is so ingrained in the human psyche. I don?t know how we can stop it.

Ben Jonson

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Stan Hyman

We accomplished what we wanted to come down here with the split, but when you sweep the first day you get a little greedy and want to get at least one of the two (contests) the next day.

Charles Horton Cooley

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Charlie Pierce

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

Chris Crutcher

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Charles Spurgeon

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Charles R. Swindoll

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

Dennis Prager

Life is too short not to enjoy as much of it as you can

Dean Koontz

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is meant to be lived.

Eileen Caddy

Our life is our own creation.

Edward Abbey

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

Deepak Chopra

There will never be a time when your life is not this moment.