Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epicurus

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

Emily Dickinson

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

Tony Blair

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

Tom Rachman

Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.

Simon Le Bon

You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.

Simon Le Bon

Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

Richard Branson

Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

Tim Gunn

Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

Thucydides

Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.

Thom Yorke

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy

Theophrastus

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

Theophrastus

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

Lewis Mumford

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

Lee Myung-bak

One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.

Neil Peart

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"

Marcus Garvey

Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even open warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda... propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.

Marcus Garvey

Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.

Marcus Aurelius

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

Peter Straub

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

Peter Ustinov

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us

Penelope Cruz

My ambition is to be happy.

Pema Chodron

A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.

Paz Vega

My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

Rachel Field

The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!

Rabindranath Tagore

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Placido Domingo

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

Joseph Kosinski

So Disney has their full support behind it, which is great, but again it's got to be the right story. It's got to be a script that's up to snuff and worth going back for. The idea's there, the ambition's there, the excitement's there; but we need to have all the pieces in place before they would ever pull the trigger on that.

Joss Whedon

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

Kevin Kline

Ambition without contribution is of no significance.

Kevin James

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.