Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stefan Zweig

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.

Thomas Hobbes

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

Thomas Keller

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

Raymond Loewy

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

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.

Jerome K. Jerome

Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

Jennifer Lawrence

I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy.

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if your biggest ambition in life is to git that big ole coon. The one what hangs 'round over yonder, back'ah Bubba's barn...

James C. Collins

Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious-but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.

Jahangir Khan

If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.

Christopher Hitchens

In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.

George Harrison

I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.

Jeanette Winterson

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

Jessye Norman

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

Jeb Bush

I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.

George Sand

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

Jean-Luc Godard

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

Jim Henson

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

Elsa Schiaparelli

The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

Hippocrates

If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.

Hillary Clinton

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

Herbert Hoover

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere,

Goodluck Jonathan

My political ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.

Ian Mckellen

I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.

Hugh Grant

My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

Horace

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.