Quotes about ambition
ambition problem no-problem
Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. Camille Paglia
ambition sadness sight
Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret. Catherynne M. Valente
ambition talent
Your ambition outweighed your talent Casey Stoner
ambition thinking government
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs must have been founded on fixed reasons of interest and ambition. Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds, on which it is commonly founded; and, by an infallible connexion, which prevails among all kinds of liberty, this privilege can never be enjoyed, at least has never yet been enjoyed, but in a free government. David Hume
ambition passion principles
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions
ambition want film
I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition. David Brooks
ambition winning oscars
I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me. Ben Whishaw
ambition writing get-better
There are very specific demands, though, in television, and you notice the budget constrictions. It's the time constraint and a purse constraint more than anything else that you notice. But the ambition of the writing and, hopefully, the delivery of it gets better and better because we want to outdo ourselves to keep ahead of a very expectant and hungry public. Benedict Cumberbatch
ambition thinking games
It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree. Beau Willimon
ambition reality radio
The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet. Barney Frank
ambition survival independence
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. Aslan Maskhadov
ambition perfection my-ambition
My ambition is peace and perfection. DeForest Kelley
ambition artist wonder
I always wonder what drives us as Artists. Diana Krall
ambition successful men
You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ambition america people
America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don't know when to stop. It can become unhealthy. Chaka Khan
ambition literary-theory imagination
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination. Charles Simic
ambition passion self
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self. Charles Horton Cooley
ambition sea woods
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
ambition despair turns
Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair. Charles Gounod
ambition fighting drug
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future. Bob Riley
ambition perfect goal
Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve . Bob Parsons
ambition champion economy
The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange . Bob Brown
ambition progress contentment
Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has. Bob Lewis
ambition want forgotten
I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten, Bob Kaufman
ambition opportunity newspaper-reporters
I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along. Charles Kuralt
ambition yield favors
No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare. Charles Lindbergh
ambition adventure air
Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials? Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise?
ambition order desire
The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity. Edward Gibbon
ambition voice feet
The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his feet; and he heard himself saluted Emperor by the unanimous voice of the senate and people. But the day of his inauguration was the last day of his happiness.
ambition men thinking
Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
ambition desire acting
I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I've seen it. Bill Murray
ambition britain ashamed
In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive. Cat Deeley
ambition heart warrior
Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: 'Does this path have a heart?' Carlos Castaneda