Quotes about ambition
ambition average goal
A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals. Brian Tracy
ambition thinking ambitious
It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now. Jane Wagner
ambition best caused danger measure trade
There is a real danger that the competitive disadvantage caused by this measure will frustrate the government's ambition of making the U.K. the best place to trade electronically by 2002.
ambition laziness my-ambition
My ambition is handicapped by laziness Charles Bukowski
ambition law miracle
Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept. Ayn Rand
ambition men liberty
Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him.
ambition erosion goal
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
ambition men people
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. Benjamin Disraeli
ambition thinking trying
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it. Ben Elton
ambition my-ambition
My ambition cannot be stopped! Cao Cao
ambition ambitious inability lost pain political
We've already lost much of the ambition of the Doha round. It's not an ambitious round. There is a generalized inability to make deals, to take political pain back home.
ambition guy hopefully passion sexier
What I look for in a guy is passion and ambition and there's nothing sexier than intellect, so hopefully that would be reciprocated. Julia Stiles
ambition courage endure gained greater heart hostile intrigue lost tire
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
ambition choice heaven hell reign serve though worth
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven John Milton
ambition attracted deal genre human level piece
I think the level of ambition of this piece is something that attracted all of us, ... doing something in a genre where you can deal with supernatural elements, but really see them through the human beings. Carla Gugino
ambition guess simply
I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can. Kristan Higgins
ambition comparable domestic eu hoping level next optimistic present proposal shown states strong united week
He is still hoping and cautiously optimistic that the EU will present a strong proposal next week comparable to the level of ambition that the United States has shown on domestic support.
ambition artistic budget chance continuity director expect fired given likely nice opportunity pursue regularly sometime
I am a first-time director given an opportunity to pursue an artistic ambition I would not likely have the chance to elsewhere. The budget is excruciatingly tight, I am regularly abused and I expect to be fired sometime before we shoot. It's nice to see that, at Miramax, continuity has been maintained. Ben Affleck
ambition chose pick top
He had his pick of schools. But his ambition is to become a top entrepreneur and businessman, and that's why he chose Bentley.
ambition buying change lottery secret tech
He has a secret ambition he's going to IPO and be a millionaire. This tech shakeup is going to change a lot of people's thinking. It's an upscale way of buying a lottery ticket. It doesn't come into the plan.
ambition long principles
Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense. Alexander Hamilton
ambition passion government
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest...
ambition tyrants principles
...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
ambition character federalism
The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in the State administrations as are capable of preferring their own emolument and advancement to the public weal.
ambition rights government
The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
ambition loss government
I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to divest the States of the authorities of that description. The regulation of the mere domestic police of a State appears to me to hold out slender allurements to ambition.
ambition character government
Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy.
ambition mean people
For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means. Adolf Hitler
ambition hard-work elbows
You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way. Andy Grove
ambition brave firsts
First ambitions are best. We are less brave later. Andrew Miller
ambition doctors desire
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. Allen Tate
ambition golf skills
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. Alistair Cooke
ambition essence feels
In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition. Andrea Bocelli