Quotes about ambition
ambition artist mediocrity
When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish. Susan Sontag
ambition mean joy
How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige." Rajneesh
ambition frustration moon
A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated because existence has no obligation to you. But if you live without intentions, without expectations, then miraculously you find that everything that you ever dreamed of is being fulfilled. The moon is reflected in the lake - the lake never asked it, the moon never intended it. Existence goes on spontaneously. Don't bring your desire, your ambition and your expectation; they are the disturbing points. They create a chaos in your mind.
ambition goal ego
The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires.
ambition roots political
Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take the form of religion, but the politics is there. Then you are competing with other saints.
ambition men two
Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound to remain restless. If you want peace, then the first requirement is to drop all ambition. Unless you drop ambition you cannot be at ease, at peace, you cannot be relaxed.
ambition mean somewhere-else
The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.
ambition effort world
Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent.
ambition light meditation
Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking for the impossible. Meditation is not one pole: it is the absence of all conflict, all ambition, all ego trips.
ambition animal littles
Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master. Thomas Jefferson
ambition sleep men
I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.
ambition law community
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of their desires are changed; what they were fond of before has become indifferent; they were free while under the restraint of laws, but they would fain now be free to act against law.
ambition government design
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
ambition greatness thinking
In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is Robert Herrick
ambition fire soul
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls Taylor Caldwell
ambition writing eight
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims. Taiye Selasi
ambition moon space
Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the moon. I want to go to Mars! I want to eventually go beyond the solar system! Takafumi Horie
ambition land greed
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace. Tacitus
ambition ugly want
As a woman, you feel that you shouldnt want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasnt it? Rosamund Pike
ambition car people
The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life! Rupert Friend
ambition kids technology
It's hard to transport myself forward in time, and the scarcity of opportunity back then kind of fueled my ambition. But back in my day, every family I knew had a Super 8 camera, and that's what I first picked up. We adapt to the technology we have available. But for the kids of today, they can really make something great with what is available. Todd Haynes
ambition humble strange-places
I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. Ive hired many people at very strange places. Tony Fernandes
ambition character responsibility
We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow. Stephen Covey
ambition indifferent i-can
I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions. Vagit Alekperov
ambition expectations girl-interrupted
My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me. Susanna Kaysen
ambition agreement europe
I'd like to take a motorcycle trip across Europe, maybe even across China. Of course I'd also like to broker a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but it's important to put ceilings on one's ambitions. Stephen King
ambition men feminism
In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love. Stefan Molyneux
ambition thinking games
I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories, that is my main ambition. And to be working with amazing creators. Stana Katic
ambition character mark
Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it. Sophie Swetchine
ambition accomplishment coincidence
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment. Stefan Zweig
ambition passion political
Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing. Thomas Hobbes
ambition driven focused
You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware. Thomas Keller
ambition order chance
I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large. Raymond Loewy