Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.

Henry James

If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?

Henry Drummond

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

Johann Lamont

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

Jonathan Swift

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.

Narendra Modi

Politics for me is not Ambition but a Mission.

Napoleon Hill

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Napoleon Hill

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Napoleon Hill

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Norman Mailer

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Norman O. Brown

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

Orison Swett Marden

Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from ease and the consciousness of inherited wealth. Whatever lessens in a young man the feeling that he must make his way in the world cripples his chance of success. Poverty has ever been the priceless spur that has goaded man up to his own loaf.

Oliver Bierhoff

All sporting ambition considered, there should always be a relationship to Germany.

O. Henry

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

Octavia Butler

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Octavia Butler

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

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.

Theodore Zeldin

To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.

Theodore Zeldin

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

Theodore Roosevelt

I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.

Mahatma Gandhi

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.