Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom DeLay was brought down by the arrogance and political ambition of the political money machine he helped to build.

Stuart Pearce

We had a few good runs with Forest. It was a burning ambition of mine to be the captain who said to Brian Clough 'here is the FA Cup'. Unfortunately, we didn't quite manage it.

Sergio Marchionne

We attribute to this car a great part of our ambition and our efforts to win new customers,

William Shakespeare

Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content!Farewell the plumed troop and the big warsThat make ambition virtue!

Roger McGough

Better is a big ambition. Some people don't want that ambition as a writer. Some people seem to want to unsettle the reader. I don't know.

Don't sit up nights thinking about making me president for that will never come and I have no ambition in that direction. Any party which would nominate me would make a great mistake.

We are still assessing the full impact of the damage we have inflicted. However, it is already clear we have inflicted substantial damage on Saddam's chemical and biological war machine and set back his ambition to threaten his neighbors,

John Major

We want a truly open society, in which every man and woman will be able to go as far as their talent, ambition and effort take them

We continue with our stated ambition for sustainable growth as we seek to expand the business by organic means, through joint ventures, and by acquisition,

Orson Scott Card

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Robert Kiyosaki

Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.

Glenn Hoddle

We have to draw a line under the game. We have got 16 games to go and we have to concentrate on what was always our main ambition this season, getting promoted.

Celso Amorim

We will not lower the level of ambition of the round. If necessary we may lower the level of expectation for Hong Kong,

The title has been our ambition since day one and now we have to go out and clinch it. Then I will celebrate properly.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes. But the urge to write is something you have to have. A conviction, an ambition to write and never stop until you think, 'This is the best I can do.'

Dmitry Medvedev

My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people.

Stephen Rea

I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.

James McAvoy

I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.

Gerry Rafferty

In life, everything just happens, and I believe even before we are born that our role in life has already been determined. My main ambition is to continue to write music, which helps me to evolve in a spiritual sense and hopefully to inspire others.

Dave Matthews

We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.

David Lipsky

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

David Lee Roth

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

David Baldacci

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

David Ogilvy

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

Danny Boyle

The perfect equation is form equals content. The style of the film reflects the story, and that's what you're always aiming for. You're not always necessarily successful at it, but that's the ambition that you're trying to do.

Cullen Hightower

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

Conrad Black

We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .

Danny Huston

I had no ambition to become an actor at all.

Corin Nemec

I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

Confucius

From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.

Daley Thompson

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

William Shakespeare

Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition

Michael Leunig

There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life - and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all.