Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Babbage

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

Ian Campbell

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

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,

Andrew Miller

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

E. Stanley Jones

We grow small trying to be great.

E. O. Wilson

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to Icarus of the Greek myth.

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.

E. F. Schumacher

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

Thomas Otway

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Cam Gigandet

I can get bored with any show, when it goes on too long.

Alexa Chung

I'm terrified of being bored and not learning,

Rob Lowe

If people are watching me 365 days a year, 360 days they might be bored to tears. And on the other five days, maybe I would qualify as Satan.

Scott Westerfeld

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

Scott Westerfeld

Never bored on a hoverboard.

Tony Robbins

If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

Rosie Perez

I get bored in Hollywood.

Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Toni Morrison

Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever ...

Ray Mabus

Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Ray LaMontagne

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

Simon Sinek

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.

Sheena Iyengar

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

Sheena Iyengar

When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.

Mike Young

All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.

Melissa Marr

to not act is a choice too

John Taylor Gatto

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

Shay Carl

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.