Quotes about ambition
ambition worst-enemy wish
I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy. Louise Mensch
ambition thinking trouble
The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks. Louis de Bernieres
ambition people hunger
I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all. Loretta Young
ambition pride your-side
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. Lord Chesterfield
ambition important important-things
The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody. Frida Kahlo
ambition commitment may
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider Joyce Brothers
ambition fixed my-ambition
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7. Joshua Lederberg
ambition evil may
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
ambition people exhibitions
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.
ambition law hunger
Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite Josh Billings
ambition jeans size
My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans. Karl Lagerfeld
ambition iphone waiting
I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.
ambition pride too-much
If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition. Julius Caesar
ambition home dope
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 Kanye West
ambition thinking want-something
The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition. Maggie Stiefvater
ambition men political
When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer. Madame de Stael
ambition
Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you. John Dryden
ambition people resentment
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter? John Brunner
ambition actresses six
From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do. Louise Fletcher
ambition brilliant coach full impeccable initiative pedigree surprise
You could tell then that he was an outstanding coach and a brilliant tactician. He was full of initiative and ambition and, having had an impeccable pedigree as a player, it's not a surprise that he's flourishing as a coach.
ambition mind needs
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. Maud Adams
ambition television agents
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. Meg Tilly
ambition games want
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. Meek Mill
ambition men self
When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited . Kirk Kerkorian
ambition driven
I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven. Kim Basinger
ambition settling ifs
If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get. Kathie Lee Gifford
ambition world humans
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition! Jules Verne
ambition greed matter
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition. Joseph Joubert
ambition lexicographer firsts
Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly. Jessica Mitford
ambition healing voice
How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice. Jiddu Krishnamurti
ambition looks coats
Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits. Jenny Offill
ambition duty
A sense of duty imprisons you. Jenny Holzer
ambition political policy
I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition. Paul Ryan