Quotes about ambition
ambition heart romance
there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace. Mary Roberts Rinehart
ambition men lips
I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips Nicole Krauss
ambition possibility ifs
Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility. P. D. James
ambition thinking self
I see that women still have self-doubt, and at the same time I feel like I see all these fantastic young women, and they all have ambition and are so focused on their futures. I don't think that's an anomaly anymore. Mary Harron
ambition passion luxury
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation. Michel de Montaigne
ambition support hatred
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
ambition greatness willpower
We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.
ambition people honor
If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
ambition winning doubt
If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
ambition shows plague
Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
ambition solitude mind
Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
ambition winning thinking
I decided on a vision. I think I maybe join Toyota at the midpoint of a project, whose long-term goal is winning world championships. Also I have my big ambition, the drivers' world championship. That is not abandoned - entirely the opposite. I am young enough and motivated enough to make a new start in order to reach this goal. Michael Schumacher
ambition style just-being
Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.
ambition hypocrisy pounds
An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. Michael Korda
ambition immortality dies
Tis immortality to die aspiring. George Chapman
ambition animal frustration
The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created. Christopher Fry
ambition opportunity years
I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .
ambition destiny europe
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington
ambition destiny europe
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition...or caprice?
ambition leaving ambitious
A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value. G. H. Hardy
ambition pride curiosity
If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.
ambition men envy
The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type. Friedrich Nietzsche
ambition heart rotten
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. John Quincy Adams
ambition joy
Such joy ambition finds. John Milton
ambition hands treasure
If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.
ambition men two
We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated. Norbert Wiener
ambition thinking acting
I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money. Norm MacDonald
ambition
I don't have any ambition.
ambition unhappy littles
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
ambition ambitious purpose
With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
ambition government design
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thomas Jefferson
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