Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

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.

James Boswell

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

Jacques Derrida

The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.

James Frey

I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.

James Callis

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

Isaac Asimov

It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.

Elton John

Live for each second without hesitation

Ellen Barkin

I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.

Ella Baker

I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control.

Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Neale Donald Walsch

Here is the Divine Dichotomy... The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'. Just be where you choose to get!' It's that simple.

Milan Kundera

My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.