Quotes about ambition
ambition thinking together
In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can’t pick up a page. All the words slide off. William H. Gass
ambition numbers may
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. Wilfred Owen
ambition shining ability
I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities. Washington Allston
ambition adventure heart
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. Washington Irving
ambition lunch smoking
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion. W. Somerset Maugham
ambition simple thinking
I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple. Yoko Ono
ambition past each-day
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition. William Osler
ambition law agency
The one governmental agency that has no ambition. William O. Douglas
ambition greatness intrigue
To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness? William Makepeace Thackeray
ambition college one-day
When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director. Yash Chopra
ambition way coast
The only way to coast is downhill. Zig Ziglar
ambition certain ifs
If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.