Quotes about ambition
ambition people hollywood
When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer. Anita Loos
ambition mean heart
The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other. Ameen Rihani
ambition men analysis
The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Ambrose Bierce
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
ambition years discipline
Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and I'd done all three since I was 9-years-old. I could sing, but I didn't become a great singer. Amy Winehouse
ambition dupes victim
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. Alphonse de Lamartine
ambition front good knows looking paul robinson
We were looking for a very good keeper, who has the ambition to play, but also knows Paul Robinson is in front of him,
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
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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 thinking people
People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement. James Wolcott
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
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When I decided to run for Congress, I saw it as an opportunity to serve the South Jersey community that had become my home after signing to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I didn't choose public service out of political ambition or a desire for power, and never once thought of making a career of it. Jon Runyan
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Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious. Tom Cotton
ambition college rights
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news. Bob Edwards
ambition people greed
People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive. Bob Dylan
ambition home way
I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere... set out to find... this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?
ambition order needs
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
ambition careers people
I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise. Brendan Gleeson
ambition fire goal
Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change. Brendon Burchard
ambition desire today
There's a starting place. And that starting place for everyone is ambition. We're all scared of that word today because they made it bad in the late '80s. As if desire is not a good thing.
ambition attention distraction
It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.
ambition retiring my-ambition
Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition. Brenda Blethyn
ambition growth chivalry
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition. Bono
ambition thinking
I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar"... Barack Obama
ambition men self
The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition Bruce Lee
ambition sky lows
They build too low who build beneath the skies. Edward Young
ambition strive lows
Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw. Edmund Spenser
ambition power may
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded. Edmund Burke
ambition thinking abuse
I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded....We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.