Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Gardener

It has always been my ambition to win a major outdoor title and that will be the plan at the Commonwealths.

Richard Rorty

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

Werner Herzog

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

Samuel Fuller

Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.

Wangari Maathai

There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.

Wangari Maathai

When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.

W. H. Auden

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

William Congreve

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

Tory Burch

Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.

Charlie Ward

He said, 'You're welcome to come on full-time now,'

Walter Wriston

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.

Yang Yang

You come. You will be very surprised. I will be there to welcome you.

Paul Singer

You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.

Rabindranath Tagore

To find God, you must welcome everything.

Jim Rohn

Welcome all experiences. You never know which one is gong to turn everything on.

Stein Vaaler

We welcome this decision. We think this is fair.

Garrett Fort

I am Dracula.... I bid you welcome.

Nikki Smith

He always made you feel welcome and comfortable.

Mark Haddon

If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.

Christopher Morley

Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard