Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Plato

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

Jonathan Swift

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.

Narendra Modi

Politics for me is not Ambition but a Mission.

Napoleon Hill

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Napoleon Hill

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Napoleon Hill

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Norman Mailer

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Norman O. Brown

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

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.

Joseph Estrada

The truth is also imprisoned because of the personal ambition and interests of a few. This truth should be set free now.

Eric Idle

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

Eric Hoffer

The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time not only because I am without a multitude of responsibilities and without daily tasks, which demand attention: But also because I am basically without ambition. Neither the present nor the future has claims on me.

Matthew Miller

You can still strike it rich with technology. If you have a smart idea, a lot of ambition and a lot of luck, Silicon Valley is where some billionaires are going to be made.

Dorothy Dix

(A girl's) chief ambition then, as now, was to get married and have a home and children.

Johann Lamont

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

James Thurber

This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

Oliver Bierhoff

All sporting ambition considered, there should always be a relationship to Germany.

O. Henry

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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.

Octavia Butler

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Emile Hirsch

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

Emile Zola

The vague torment of ... ambition.

Emile M. Cioran

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

Ellen G. White

Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.

Eric Ries

The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build-the thing customers want and will pay for-as quickly as possible. In other words, the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.