Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Gove

We need a national ambition to build hundreds of thousands of new homes a year, both private and socially-rented - led by someone who will not take no for an answer and who will push for diggers in the ground and homes for all come what may.

Michael J. Fox

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

Miranda Kerr

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

Mike McGavick

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

John Ruskin

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

John Ruskin

There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.

John Quincy Adams

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

John Milton

Such joy ambition finds.

John Milton

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

Norbert Wiener

We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.

Norm MacDonald

I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money.

Norm MacDonald

I don't have any ambition.

Norm MacDonald

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

Norm MacDonald

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

Neil Diamond

I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

Theodore Zeldin

To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.

Theodore Zeldin

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

Theodore Roosevelt

I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

Kimi Raikkonen

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

Michael Atherton

The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions

Larry Walters

A man can't just sit around.

Lajos Kossuth

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

Lajos Kossuth

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

Patsy Cline

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

Oscar Wilde

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

Oscar Wilde

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

Tobey Maguire

All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off, but they've all given me a fervor. An angry ambition that cannot be stopped-and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.

Rajneesh

Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures.

Rajneesh

The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be successful, and all these things create your tensions, your anxieties: how to be a celebrity?