Quotes about ambition
ambition self anxiety
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement. Lucy Maud Montgomery
ambition eye valleys
If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.
ambition dust my-ambition
I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.
ambition ideas little-women
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her… Louisa May Alcott
ambition thinking medicine
My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research. Jonas Salk
ambition people doe
In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people. Panayiotis Zavos
ambition years film
It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film. Paul McCartney
ambition two mad
When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory... Percy Bysshe Shelley
ambition home wonderful
All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home. Mary Oliver
ambition today
Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
ambition hunting hands
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes. Pindar
ambition effort generations
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life. Pierre de Coubertin
ambition has-beens sated
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. Pierre Corneille
ambition summit
Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
ambition aspire
Ambition aspires to descend
ambition goal trouble
...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything. Philippa Gregory
ambition fighting insane
I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.
ambition compromise virtue
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
ambition men vices
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. Philip Massinger
ambition men blessing
Man was mark'd A friend in his creation to himself, And may, with fit ambition, conceive The greatest blessings, and the highest honors Appointed for him, if he can achieve them The right and noble way.
ambition long want
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 Morgan
ambition comfort excuse
The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire. Peter McWilliams
ambition self interesting
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
ambition great-ambition knows
Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.
ambition israel iran
You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions. Peter MacKay
ambition parent vices
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
ambition boys giving
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.
ambition mean men
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. Plutarch
ambition mad
And mad ambition trumpeteth to all. Nathaniel Parker Willis
ambition reality men
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
ambition intuition forget
Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition. Jimmy Buffett
ambition self discipline
Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued. Jim Rohn
ambition enemy left
Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.