Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

Benjamin Disraeli

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'

Elbert Hubbard

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

Elbert Hubbard

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Eileen Caddy

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others. But do not be daunted, do whatever it is because you know within it is right for you.

Our ambition is to stage one of the most significant cultural festivals of the year.

Jean Todt

Our ambition is to finish third in the manufacturers' championship, and in this respect we took two points more than Toyota in Spa,

Our ambition is to come up with a better taxation system than that of the outgoing government.

Our ambition is to be worldwide leaders in survey technology, and I believe we will be there in three years.

A driving ambition is of little use if you're on the wrong road

William Shakespeare

Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content!Farewell the plumed troop and the big warsThat make ambition virtue!

Don't sit up nights thinking about making me president for that will never come and I have no ambition in that direction. Any party which would nominate me would make a great mistake.

This decision is vital to the ongoing development of our football club and our ambition is to have a capacity of 40,600.

This force, which is the best thing in you, your highest self, will never respond to any ordinary half-hearted call, or any milk-and-water endeavor, It can only be reached by your supremest call, your supremest effort. It will respond only to the call that is backed up by the whole of you, not part of you; you must be all there in what you are trying to do. You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure... Only a masterly call, a masterly will, a supreme effort, intense and persistent application, can unlock the door to your inner treasure and release your highest powers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.

Ambition - The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.

William Shakespeare

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff - Julius Caesar

Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing, great things are possible to you.

Gordon B. Hinckley

One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.

Geraldine Brooks

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

Herman Melville

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Jeremy Collier

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.

Jeremy Bentham

In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

Erwin McManus

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

Fisher Ames

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

Fernando Torres

The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it, it is a very important competition.

Fiona Apple

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Helen Keller

Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.