Quotes about ambition
ambition captivity pope
Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity Martin Luther
ambition hands order
Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets. Mark Steyn
ambition long poverty
Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.
ambition color drawing
It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one. Philip Guston
ambition may littles
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. Henry Taylor
ambition self intellectual
Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love...
ambition cradle graves
Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ambition math branches
[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous. Henri Poincare
ambition sublime lines
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. James Russell Lowell
ambition pride purpose
Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them. Laurence Sterne
ambition garden plants-growing
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. Liberty Hyde Bailey
ambition democracies-have democracy
Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force. Franklin D. Roosevelt
ambition wealth prosperity
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
ambition people political
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
ambition befriending easy
I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab. George Galloway
ambition records late
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. Jon Landau
ambition power design
Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard. Jon Anderson
ambition understanding soul
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. Luigi Pirandello
ambition
Ambition is the death of thought. Ludwig Wittgenstein
ambition men evil
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious. Luc de Clapiers
ambition eye pedestal
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
ambition people resentment
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter? John Brunner
ambition giving satisfaction
Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent. Mahatma Gandhi
ambition humanity battle
In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.
ambition government people
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 intellectual fields
Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.
ambition office revolution
Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!
ambition men presidential
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
ambition emotional order
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. Louise J. Kaplan
ambition visionaries serving-god
The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions. George Barna
ambition mind needs
Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated. Maud Adams
ambition television agents
I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me. Meg Tilly
ambition games want
Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It's a reminder to stay on top of my game. That's not a place I want to go back to. Meek Mill