Quotes about ambition
ambition limits common
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought. Hyman Rickover
ambition ego consumers
There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again. Giorgio Armani
ambition athlete discipline
To be the best in your field is a great ambition, and requires discipline and a huge amount of effort. The athletes who possess this drive are the ones I am attracted to.
ambition want live-in-the-present
I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live. Gerard Depardieu
ambition self political
Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether. J. M. Coetzee
ambition accomplishment innovation
Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment. J. K. Rowling
ambition ifs
if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem. Natalie Clifford Barney
ambition thinking entrepreneur
I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything. Mukesh Ambani
ambition reality self
In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was. Julian Barnes
ambition creative selfishness
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. Kris Kristofferson
ambition men trying
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134 Kazuo Ishiguro
ambition career full good keen offers research shows teenagers
The research shows that our teenagers are full of ambition and really keen to have a career that offers good prospects,
ambition benefits may
The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions Michael Atherton
ambition writing blood
To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There, one is truly without a name, without ambition, without help; on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness. Rainer Maria Rilke
ambition saws hunger
Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that? Sidney Sheldon
ambition noble decided
But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition. Seth Grahame-Smith
ambition people looks
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off, but they've all given me a fervor. An angry ambition that cannot be stopped-and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that. Tobey Maguire
ambition frustration expectations
Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures. Rajneesh
ambition successful giving
The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be successful, and all these things create your tensions, your anxieties: how to be a celebrity?
ambition desire bondage
Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage.
ambition race finals
Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future. Michael Moorcock
ambition heart brain
There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.
ambition heart rotten
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. John Quincy Adams
ambition joy
Such joy ambition finds. John Milton
ambition hands treasure
If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.
ambition men two
We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated. Norbert Wiener
ambition thinking acting
I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money. Norm MacDonald
ambition
I don't have any ambition.
ambition unhappy littles
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
ambition ambitious purpose
With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
ambition thinking years
I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music. Neil Diamond
ambition discovery television
I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center. Neil deGrasse Tyson
ambition space want
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.