Quotes about ambition
ambition love-is hatred
If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled. Salman Rushdie
ambition thinking people
There will always be people who think that you have ambitions. Wangari Maathai
ambition home limits
When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.
ambition men intelligent
Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition. W. H. Auden
ambition self flames
Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires. William Congreve
ambition four letters
Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that. Tory Burch
ambition important want
Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.
ambition four letters
There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.
ambition play two
My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing. Van Morrison
ambition noise made
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. Roger Ebert
ambition creativity ideas
I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid. Robert Plant
ambition successful people
You have to continue to learn. That's how you develop. So the people who show that curiosity, that ambition, that willingness to do what it takes to improve and to get better, they're the people who are going to be successful in the long term. Roger Goodell
ambition desire culture
Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture. Satya Nadella
ambition self self-knowledge
Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! William Hague
ambition player being-the-best
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. William Hazlitt
ambition names excellence
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
ambition incentives
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
ambition tolls may
Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power. William Davenant
ambition mind
Ambition is the mind's immodesty.
ambition america fit
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America") Wendell Berry
ambition thinking littles
Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not. Walter Raleigh
ambition lunch smoking
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion. W. Somerset Maugham
ambition simple thinking
I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple. Yoko Ono
ambition past each-day
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition. William Osler
ambition law agency
The one governmental agency that has no ambition. William O. Douglas
ambition greatness intrigue
To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness? William Makepeace Thackeray
ambition college one-day
When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director. Yash Chopra
ambition way coast
The only way to coast is downhill. Zig Ziglar
ambition simple light
The street is the most impactful for me really, always, and the Internet. I guess I'd like to sell some more light pieces so I can rent some more billboards; that's my only ambition in life really. Then I'd like to save up some money so I can buy a very simple wooden house, and then after that I'd like to start buying billboards. I'd like to buy a bunch of billboards in different cities so we owned them and I could give them to Occupy to tell the truth with. Robert Montgomery
ambition thinking people
If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best. Rob Morrow
ambition everyday finding-yourself
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy. Richard Linklater
ambition choices quality
When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me to make. Ricardo Carvalho
ambition disease
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself. Rebecca Miller