Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adrian Grenier

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

Adam Smith

Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.

Adam Smith

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

Darren Boyd

Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a film opportunity came up, but it's a unique place, and you can reach saturation point. For me it was a place where creative desire and ambition meets desperation. It's in the air; it's palpable - I just didn't want to be around that.

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

We needed this for morale. We have the talent, the desire and the ambition to win, we just hadn't. I have been trying to teach them to believe that they can win.

We are obviously extremely disappointed for Bobby at the outcome of the work permit hearing. However, I am confident that he will one day fulfill his ambition of playing in the top leagues of Europe.

William Shakespeare

But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.

Rosecrans Baldwin

My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be.

Rafe Spall

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

Dmitry Medvedev

My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people.

Daley Thompson

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Dave Matthews

We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.

David Lipsky

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

David Lee Roth

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

David Baldacci

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

David Ogilvy

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

Danny Boyle

The perfect equation is form equals content. The style of the film reflects the story, and that's what you're always aiming for. You're not always necessarily successful at it, but that's the ambition that you're trying to do.

But North Korea needs to make a strategic decision to set aside its ambition for nuclear weapons.

Francis Rossi

Both Rick and I are lifelong fans of Coronation Street so to be in the Rovers with the regulars is an ambition fulfilled.

Anton Corbijn

In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.

Sergio Marchionne

We attribute to this car a great part of our ambition and our efforts to win new customers,

John Milton

To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n

Stephen Rea

I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.

James McAvoy

I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.

Gerry Rafferty

In life, everything just happens, and I believe even before we are born that our role in life has already been determined. My main ambition is to continue to write music, which helps me to evolve in a spiritual sense and hopefully to inspire others.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes. But the urge to write is something you have to have. A conviction, an ambition to write and never stop until you think, 'This is the best I can do.'

Cynthia Ozick

To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

Cynthia Ozick

One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Michael Leunig

There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life - and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all.

William Shakespeare

Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition