Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Savage Landor

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

Walter Scott

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

Walter Scott

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

Walter Scott

Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well-- Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

Walter Scott

Ambition is no cure for love!

Vladimir Putin

Somebody is always suspecting Russia of having some ambitions, there are always those who are trying to misinterpret us or keep something back.

Vladimir Putin

We are not going to waste our reserves and burn them for any political ambitions. We will act very carefully.

Winston Churchill

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

Winston Churchill

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

Winston Churchill

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Tracey Ullman

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do

Robert Green Ingersoll

It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.

Samuel Johnson

The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.

Sade Adu

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

Rufus Wainwright

I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

William Hague

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

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.

William Hazlitt

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

William Davenant

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

Wendell Berry

We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America")

Walter Raleigh

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

W. Somerset Maugham

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

Yoko Ono

I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.

William Osler

Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.

William O. Douglas

The one governmental agency that has no ambition.

William Makepeace Thackeray

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Zig Ziglar

The only way to coast is downhill.

Zig Ziglar

If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.

Dave Whelan

Paul and myself are not talking about Europe just yet. The ambition was to stay in the Premier League and we look like we're going to fulfill that ambition. We never thought we would get to the final of the League Cup. It's fairytale stuff.