Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Conrad

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

John Keats

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

Juliette Binoche

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

Joyce Brothers

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider

Joshua Lederberg

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

Joshua Reynolds

One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.

Joshua Reynolds

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

Josh Billings

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite

Karl Lagerfeld

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

Karl Lagerfeld

I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.

Julius Caesar

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

Kanye West

This dope money here is Lil Treys scholarship Cause aint no to tuition for havin no ambition And aint no loans for sittin your ass at home

Martin Luther

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

Martin Luther

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

Mark Steyn

Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

Mark Steyn

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

Mary Harron

I see that women still have self-doubt, and at the same time I feel like I see all these fantastic young women, and they all have ambition and are so focused on their futures. I don't think that's an anomaly anymore.

Paul Ryan

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

Paul Allen

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

Patty Sheehan

Women Who Seek Equality With Men Lack Ambition

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Mike Pence

We need an effective American diplomacy that will marshall the resources of nations in the Asian Pacific Rim to put pressure on North Korea, on Kim Jong-un, to abandon his nuclear ambitions. It has to remain the policy of the United States of America, the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, plain and simple.

P. D. James

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

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.

Nicole Krauss

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips

Muhammad Iqbal

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

Madonna Ciccone

I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself and to see that in the midst of all my ambition and desire to succeed and my search for approval, I do give things to people. I bring some sort of happiness to their lives. So I'm not so hard on myself anymore.

Lyman Abbott

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

Louis Kronenberger

The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.

Michel de Montaigne

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Michel de Montaigne

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

Michel de Montaigne

We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.

Michel de Montaigne

If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.