Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jack Kirby

My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American.

Jack Kirby

The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.

J. G. Ballard

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

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.

Ellis Peters

Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. Not here - not now.

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.

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.

Goodluck Jonathan

My political ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian

Jenny Offill

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

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

Zig Ziglar

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.

William Lilly

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

William Lilly

Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

Winston Churchill

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

William Hazlitt

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

William Hazlitt

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

I'm very familiar with the program and I know them all very well. They all have great ambition and they're all very motivated. Some of them are year-round swimmers, and that's definitely going to help things out quite a bit.

Jonathan Stroud

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

Kevin Rudd

I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference .

Napoleon Hill

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Louise J. Kaplan

For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.

Dorothy Dix

(A girl's) chief ambition then, as now, was to get married and have a home and children.

Henry Adams

If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency; a faith warmer than that of reasoning; a love purer than that of the self; he has been slow to express it; still slower to urge it.

John Adams

A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.

John Adams

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

John Adams

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

Jon Landau

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

Luigi Pirandello

Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ambition is the death of thought.