Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Winehouse

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.

Don Winslow

It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay, here's where we are in the world. Now we're just going to go inside this person's head, this guy's heart, this woman's ambitions and take it down to very, very small scale."

Dale Carnegie

Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.

Colin Powell

Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together

Daniel Craig

I never had any boyhood ambitions.

Clive Owen

Something I don't like seeing in other people is naked ambition, when somebody is really pushing hard to get to where they want to be. That's the way I look at that word - like you must be stepping on someone to get there. And I've never been comfortable with that.

Clive Barker

Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes—if necessary—brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.

Adam Smith

Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.

Adam Smith

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

Abraham Lincoln

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Alberto Manguel

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

Alberto Manguel

If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of omnipresence; the library that contained everything has become the library that contains anything.

Alberto Manguel

We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the warning that all we gather will be lost, but also that much of it can be collected again; we can learn from its splendid ambition that what was one man's experience can become, through the alchemy of words, the experience of all, and how that experience, distilled once again into words, can serve each singular reader for some secret, singular purpose.

Alfred P. Sloan

It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

Albert Einstein

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

Anthony de Mello

You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Anthony de Mello

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Annette Funicello

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

Anna Kendrick

An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.

Anita Loos

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.

Ameen Rihani

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

Ambrose Bierce

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.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes: ambition, secrecy, calculating. I mean, that is Lady Macbeth, a kind of cold woman. I don't think that's Hillary. And I don't think people would judge a man in the same way.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

Dino De Laurentiis

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

Deepak Chopra

Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.

Claire Bloom

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it

Andrew Johnson

I have reached the summit of my ambition.

Andrew Jackson

From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear dangers from abroad ... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power - that factions will be formed and liberty endangered ...

Alphonse de Lamartine

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

Alexander Pope

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

Alexander Pope

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Alex Kapranos

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.