Quotes about ambition
ambition gladstone statesmen
That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too. Woodrow Wilson
ambition masters spoken-word
It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word. Winston Churchill
ambition men people
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. Wilson Mizner
ambition men america
There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant. W. C. Fields
ambition orange glasses
My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.
ambition reality desire
A reality shaped around your own desires -- there is something sociopathic in that ambition. Zadie Smith
ambition racism world
When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism. Zora Neale Hurston
ambition games exciting
The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
ambition school building
I've been looking for ways to audition more, because it also keeps me sharp and keeps my ambition at its firm edge. That's something that I'm actively engaged in conversations about now with my reps: What's out there that I can really either put myself on tape for, or meet with the director for and read for? How do we do that? We're now at the end of the Star Trek reboot trilogies and whether we are going to do another movie remains to be seen, and so I feel like I'm at the end of this cycle that began with me coming out of school and auditioning and building my way up. Zachary Quinto
ambition japan korea
The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert. Zach Wamp
ambition conflict resolve
To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed. Zbigniew Brzezinski
ambition have-a-great-day action
Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it. Zig Ziglar
ambition self self-knowledge
Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! William Hague
ambition player being-the-best
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. William Hazlitt
ambition names excellence
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
ambition incentives
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
ambition tolls may
Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power. William Davenant
ambition mind
Ambition is the mind's immodesty.
ambition america fit
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America") Wendell Berry
ambition thinking littles
Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not. Walter Raleigh
ambition ego becoming
I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something. Walter Cronkite
ambition want labs
If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it! Werner Herzog
ambition ego vision
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
ambition veins priceless
Ambition is priceless, its something that's in your veins. Wale
ambition men likelihood
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition. Samuel Richardson
ambition frustration men
Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express. Samuel Fuller
ambition love-is hatred
If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled. Salman Rushdie
ambition thinking people
There will always be people who think that you have ambitions. Wangari Maathai
ambition home limits
When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.
ambition ideas support
So Disney has their full support behind it, which is great, but again it's got to be the right story. It's got to be a script that's up to snuff and worth going back for. The idea's there, the ambition's there, the excitement's there; but we need to have all the pieces in place before they would ever pull the trigger on that. Joseph Kosinski
ambition want pay
I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good. Joss Whedon
ambition significance contribution
Ambition without contribution is of no significance. Kevin Kline
ambition character writing
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between. Kevin James