Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Massenet

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

Tallulah Bankhead

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

Tallulah Bankhead

Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.

Tony Blair

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

Tom Rachman

Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.

Simon Le Bon

You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.

Simon Le Bon

Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.

Thomas Merton

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

Thomas Merton

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Thomas Carlyle

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

Steven Erikson

Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable

Stendhal

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

Stendhal

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

Sigmund Freud

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

Shakti Gawain

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

Richard Branson

Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

Tim Gunn

Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

Thomas Keller

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

Raymond Loewy

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

Robert Frost

I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.

Renee Fleming

In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential...Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.

Thomas Otway

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Thomas Paine

Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government.

Rupert Friend

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!

Todd Haynes

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.

Tony Fernandes

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. Ive hired many people at very strange places.

Stephen Covey

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.

Vagit Alekperov

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

Susanna Kaysen

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

Steven Pressfield

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.

Steven Brust

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.