Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Morgan

I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

Peter McWilliams

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

Peter Ackroyd

I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

Peter Ackroyd

Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.

Peter MacKay

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

Quintilian

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]

Quintilian

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

Plutarch

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman

Robert Frost

I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.

Renee Fleming

In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential...Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.

Thomas Otway

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Thomas Paine

Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government.

Robert Montgomery

The street is the most impactful for me really, always, and the Internet. I guess I'd like to sell some more light pieces so I can rent some more billboards; that's my only ambition in life really. Then I'd like to save up some money so I can buy a very simple wooden house, and then after that I'd like to start buying billboards. I'd like to buy a bunch of billboards in different cities so we owned them and I could give them to Occupy to tell the truth with.

Roger Ebert

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Robert Plant

I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.

Roger Goodell

You have to continue to learn. That's how you develop. So the people who show that curiosity, that ambition, that willingness to do what it takes to improve and to get better, they're the people who are going to be successful in the long term.

Satya Nadella

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

Samuel West

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

Samuel Johnson

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Rob Morrow

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

Richard Linklater

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

Ricardo Carvalho

When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me to make.

Rebecca Miller

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

Richard Rorty

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

Richard Greenberg

A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just to put it up somewhere.

Richard Francis Burton

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

Riccardo Muti

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

Rich Mullins

If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live with the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sort of things. That's the only time I think we really leave a great legacy.

Rich Mullins

If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

Rebecca Wells

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

Tupac Shakur

I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.