Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

As in nature, things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.

Ambition - The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.

William Shakespeare

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff - Julius Caesar

Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition is never content, even on the summit of greatness.

As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.

I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .

Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing, great things are possible to you.

Gordon B. Hinckley

One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.

Geraldine Brooks

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

Herman Melville

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

James Boswell

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

Jacques Derrida

The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.

James Frey

I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.

James Callis

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

Isaac Asimov

It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.

Elton John

Live for each second without hesitation

Ellen Barkin

I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.

Ella Baker

I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

Francisco Franco

I am responsible only to God and history.

Francis Quarles

When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch them selves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction.

Ian Fleming

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

Horace Walpole

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Horace

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.