Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Dieter Zetsche

We have no shortage of capacity and we are not planning to take any of it out. Our ambition is to make our plants efficient wherever they are.

Diane Setterfield

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

William Shakespeare

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

William Shakespeare

Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

Heinrich Rohrer

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

William Shakespeare

Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.

William Shakespeare

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

Elizabeth Arden

It is remarkable what a woman can accomplish with just a little ambition.

Edwin Louis Cole

The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with eroticism, demanding more indulgence more often until a degenerative spiral captures the soul and drags us on a never ending descent into deeper patterns of immorality and illicit behaviour... Lust goes beyond the sexual. Lust can show itself in a variety of forms: covetousness, gluttony, drunkeness, power hunger, or unbridled ambition, to name a few

Edgar Quinet

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Bobby Jones

Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.

James Wolcott

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

Barbra Streisand

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

Arthur Christiansen

The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.

Bela Lugosi

Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.

Baltasar Gracian

The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.

Baltasar Gracian

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Arundhati Roy

Rahel’s toy wristwatch had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could change the time whenever she wanted to (which according to her was what Time was meant for in the first place).

Arianna Huffington

Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.

Anthony Trollope

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Anthony Trollope

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

Anthony Trollope

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

Craig Ferguson

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

Bryant H. McGill

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

Bryant H. McGill

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Carroll Shelby

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

Alan Lightman

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

Alain de Botton

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

Alain de Botton

If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.

Alain de Botton

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

Charles Cumming

I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?

Charles Babbage

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.