Quotes about ambition
ambition survival independence
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. Aslan Maskhadov
ambition ambitious inability lost pain political
We've already lost much of the ambition of the Doha round. It's not an ambitious round. There is a generalized inability to make deals, to take political pain back home.
ambition loss choices
Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him. William Shakespeare
ambition wings golden
Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.
ambition arrogance bias blind constantly conviction experience expertise faith means science tightrope today walking
Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow. Heinrich Rohrer
ambition winning soul
Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.
ambition men ambitious
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
ambition debt paid
Ambition's debt is paid.
ambition sadness sight
Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret. Catherynne M. Valente
ambition talent
Your ambition outweighed your talent Casey Stoner
ambition desire acting
I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I've seen it. Bill Murray
ambition britain ashamed
In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive. Cat Deeley
ambition passion self
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self. Charles Horton Cooley
ambition sea woods
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
ambition despair turns
Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair. Charles Gounod
ambition fighting drug
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future. Bob Riley
ambition perfect goal
Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve . Bob Parsons
ambition champion economy
The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange . Bob Brown
ambition progress contentment
Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has. Bob Lewis
ambition want forgotten
I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten, Bob Kaufman
ambition dancing people
Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies Bob Hope
ambition pushing cold
What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself. Bette Midler
ambition oracles microsoft
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers. Bill Gates
ambition opportunity newspaper-reporters
I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along. Charles Kuralt
ambition yield favors
No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare. Charles Lindbergh
ambition adventure air
Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials? Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise?
ambition thinking people
People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement. James Wolcott
ambition sanctuary
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. Bryant H. McGill
ambition men doe
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
ambition race car
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along. Carroll Shelby
ambition suffering world
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly. Alan Lightman
ambition anxiety contemporary
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. Alain de Botton
ambition love-is missing
If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.