Quotes about ambition
ambition torment vague
The vague torment of ... ambition. Emile Zola
ambition addiction drug
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. Emile M. Cioran
ambition sacrifice self
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress. Ellen G. White
ambition goal vision
The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build-the thing customers want and will pay for-as quickly as possible. In other words, the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time. Eric Ries
ambition men tranquility
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. Epicurus
ambition desire may
Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies. Emily Dickinson
ambition cradle graves
Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ambition math branches
[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous. Henri Poincare
ambition blood flesh
To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition Henry Ford
ambition shelter sake
I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it! Helen McCrory
ambition thinking self
Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician. Personally, I feel his interest is a self-interest Helen Mirren
ambition boys careers
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant. Hilary Mantel
ambition needs results
The results are in great need greater ambition. Heraclitus
ambition sacrifice honor
Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life. Your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood. Henry Ward Beecher
ambition men yeast
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
ambition men noble-man
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
ambition bridges faithful
An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.
ambition artist essence
If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense? Henry James
ambition caring men
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. Henry Drummond
ambition humility people
We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns. Johann Lamont
ambition sacrifice honor
The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money. Johann Kaspar Lavater
ambition natural
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ambition wings and-love
Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
ambition persistence skills
With some basic skills, ambition and persistence, then there is little limit to what you can achieve, and by trying you can often surprise yourself. Joe Gold
ambition writing reality
My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition-to write something worthwhile. Jim Morrison
ambition trying together
In terms of putting the cast together, no problems. You know, the only problem always is just price-point. Our ambitions as we get older, all of us, is to try and do more. Eric Fellner
ambition presidential disease
Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid . John McCain
ambition men risk
Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop or delay him. A man accepted the dangers, the element of chance. If he didn't, he won nothing. John Jakes
ambition childhood want
Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies. John Irving
ambition would-be kind
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer. John Hurt
ambition thinking president
To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging. John Hodgman
ambition law miracle
Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept. Ayn Rand
ambition men liberty
Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him.