Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luc de Clapiers

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

Orison Swett Marden

Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from ease and the consciousness of inherited wealth. Whatever lessens in a young man the feeling that he must make his way in the world cripples his chance of success. Poverty has ever been the priceless spur that has goaded man up to his own loaf.

Octavia Butler

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Emily Dickinson

Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

Pierre Pettigrew

We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Mike Pence

We need an effective American diplomacy that will marshall the resources of nations in the Asian Pacific Rim to put pressure on North Korea, on Kim Jong-un, to abandon his nuclear ambitions. It has to remain the policy of the United States of America, the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, plain and simple.

Eva Green

I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'

Kirk Kerkorian

When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited .

Kim Basinger

I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.

Kathie Lee Gifford

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

Jules Verne

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Joseph Joubert

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

P. D. James

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

Priyanka Chopra

My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.

Kristen Stewart

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.

Margaret Thatcher

Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

Mary Oliver

All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.

Mary Oliver

Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?

Pindar

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Pierre de Coubertin

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.

Pierre Corneille

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

Pierre Corneille

Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.

Pierre Corneille

Ambition aspires to descend

Philippa Gregory

...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.

Philippa Gregory

I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.

Philippa Gregory

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

Philip Massinger

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Philip Massinger

Man was mark'd A friend in his creation to himself, And may, with fit ambition, conceive The greatest blessings, and the highest honors Appointed for him, if he can achieve them The right and noble way.

Peter Morgan

I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

Peter McWilliams

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

Peter Ackroyd

I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

Peter Ackroyd

Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.