Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Kirk Kerkorian

When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited .

Kathie Lee Gifford

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

Jules Verne

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Joseph Joubert

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

Kristin Chenoweth

Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer. However, if you can’t see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it.

Moliere

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

Mike Tice

I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.

J. K. Rowling

By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

Francisco Franco

I am responsible only to God and history.

Francis Quarles

When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch them selves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction.

Ian Fleming

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

Horace Walpole

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Horace

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Horace Mann

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

Tony Perez

If he has no ambition and just wants to be in the big leagues and play . . . ... You have to have a goal and follow it.

Rafael Benitez

I felt the same way going into this year's tournament as I did a year ago. And I'm as hungry now to win more trophies as I was before. It's my ambition to win many competitions with the club. I'm not satisfied with only winning the Champions League once. We want to repeat our success.

Quentin Tarantino

I could do it, ... I've actually figured out a way, even though the characters have gotten older, to do it. I just have to have the ambition to write it.

Eric Cantona

Ferguson, as a manager, and Ken, as a director, are very similar. One's a great manager, the other a great director, but both have a lot of humanity and a lot of humility. They always give you the energy... with Ferguson when we played a game it was like it was his first game - he's so passionate and gives you ambition every time. And Ken works the same way - they're very similar.