Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Webster

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

John Strachan

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

John Stott

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

John Steinbeck

Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.

Nicolas Chamfort

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Nick Frost

And remember, the people that you've seen here tonight are professionals, so please don't try any of this at home, because you are ugly and hung like a hampster.

Nick Clegg

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.

Nikolai Gogol

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

Nicole Krauss

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

Miranda Kerr

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

Mike McGavick

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

John Ruskin

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

John Ruskin

There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.

Meg Tilly

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

Meek Mill

Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It's a reminder to stay on top of my game. That's not a place I want to go back to.

Plato

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Plato

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

Philip Guston

It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one.

Marlo Thomas

Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.

May Sarton

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

Matthew Weiner

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

Maud Adams

Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.

Mason Cooley

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

Mason Cooley

Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.

Mason Cooley

Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.

Mason Cooley

Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.

Mason Cooley

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

Mary Kay Ash

An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

Michael Gove

We need a national ambition to build hundreds of thousands of new homes a year, both private and socially-rented - led by someone who will not take no for an answer and who will push for diggers in the ground and homes for all come what may.

Michael J. Fox

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.