Quotes about ambition
ambition deeds doers
I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer. John Milton
ambition passion pride
Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed. Leo Tolstoy
ambition past race
What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination that looks forward to the making of a future, not backward to the insignia of the past. Their enterprise is underwritten by a Constitution that allows for the widest horizons of sight and the broadest range of expression, supports the liberties of the people as opposed to the ambitions of the state, and stands as premise for a narrative rather than plan for an invasion or a monument. The narrative was always plural; not one story, many stories. Lewis H. Lapham
ambition would-be avant-garde
Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.
ambition winning games
To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy. Josephine Hart
ambition moments being-true
My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living. Juliette Binoche
ambition commitment may
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider Joyce Brothers
ambition fixed my-ambition
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7. Joshua Lederberg
ambition evil may
One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks. Joshua Reynolds
ambition people exhibitions
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.
ambition law hunger
Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite Josh Billings
ambition feet literature
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Joseph Conrad
ambition alertness countenance
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. John Keats
ambition law ideas
The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right. John D. Rockefeller
ambition get-better my-ambition
My ambition is always to get better and better. Lionel Messi
ambition mean patriotism
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.
ambition successful too-much
Is it possible to have too much ambition? Is it possible to be too successful? Lloyd Blankfein
ambition voice situations-in-life
Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.
ambition thinking goal
Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going. Lynette Fromme
ambition two people
Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both. Lynda Obst
ambition home boys
In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our Asian friends resist that ambition. Sometimes our folks get a little impatient. Sometimes they rattle their rockets some, and they bluff about their bombs. But we are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. Lyndon B. Johnson
ambition people different
Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further. Lucy Walker
ambition worst-enemy wish
I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy. Louise Mensch
ambition thinking trouble
The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks. Louis de Bernieres
ambition people hunger
I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all. Loretta Young
ambition pride your-side
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. Lord Chesterfield
ambition important important-things
The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody. Frida Kahlo
ambition
Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you. John Dryden
ambition hands people
Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people, by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into the hands... and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and... provide for their own safety and security. John Locke
ambition college people
I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience. John Lithgow
ambition passion giving
I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers. .. Pursue this life of love with focus and passion and ambition and courage. Give it your all. And that will be your path to true success. John Legend
ambition thinking america
I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions. John Kricfalusi
ambition interesting people
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.