Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Herbert

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.

Hakeem Olajuwon

It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

Ha-Joon Chang

Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.

Graham Roberts

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

Graham Taylor

The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager

Jim Butcher

Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?" The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court." "And why is that?" "Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.

George Herbert

For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.

Jay Inslee

We've introduced the New Apollo Energy Act, which is, I think, safe to say the most comprehensive and aggressive bill that has been introduced in Congress because it does have the scale, scope, and ambition of the original Apollo Project, and it attacks the problem in every way you can imagine. There's no silver bullet here, but there are lots of opportunities.

Jay Leno

Ambition beats genius 99% of the time

Carly Fiorina

I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.

Candace Bushnell

Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.

James Ellis

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

Oscar Niemeyer

My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

Oliver Herford

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

Oliver Goldsmith

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

Oliver Goldsmith

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Oliver Goldsmith

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Margaret Atwood

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

Khloe Kardashian

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Never allow anyone to take YOUR spirit away from you.

Margaret Thatcher

Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.

Jean Patou

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

Jessica Mitford

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.

Jenny Offill

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

Jenny Holzer

A sense of duty imprisons you.

Harry Styles

I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

Nadine Gordimer

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

Mitt Romney

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

Mitt Romney

England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions.