Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

Sam Donaldson

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

Raymond Loewy

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

Ira Glass

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

Natalie Massenet

I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.

Berthe Morisot

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Carrie Fisher

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

Char Miller

The ambition of the mayor to get into the heart of the community is quite laudable. However, shutting off streets will do the exact opposite. If you have no way to get to Main Plaza, you have no reason to go there.

Jenny Offill

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

Jason Gardener

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

Dorothea Lange

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Lamar Odom

You've got to play with pride and guts.

Eric Hoffer

Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.

Joseph J. Ellis

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

Ramakrishna

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

Ralph Ellison

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.