Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Whelan

Paul and myself are not talking about Europe just yet. The ambition was to stay in the Premier League and we look like we're going to fulfill that ambition. We never thought we would get to the final of the League Cup. It's fairytale stuff.

John Gray

Some people are just more spiritual than others and I really had a strong ambition to know God,

Billy Corgan

If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.

Berthe Morisot

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

C. S. Lewis

Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

Carrie Fisher

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

Bette Davis

May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.

Erik Morales

Last Saturday night I run into a guy with a lot of ambition who wanted to win very much. Was in great condition and was obviously well prepared to fight me.

Char Miller

The ambition of the mayor to get into the heart of the community is quite laudable. However, shutting off streets will do the exact opposite. If you have no way to get to Main Plaza, you have no reason to go there.

Lakpa Sherpa

I think this is a very wealthy country.

Charles Babbage

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

Ludwig von Mises

The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

Ayn Rand

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Dave Ramsey

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

Babe Ruth

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

Walter Benjamin

I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!

Alfred Marshall

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Adelbert von Chamisso

Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.

Calvin Coolidge

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Dennis Prager

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

Aristotle

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Aristotle

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Aeschylus

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

Ansel Adams

The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.

Brendon Burchard

When you are congruent in your personal life, you will be congruent in your business life.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Bertrand Russell

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.