Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rosamund Pike

As a woman, you feel that you shouldnt want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasnt it?

Rupert Friend

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

Todd Haynes

It's hard to transport myself forward in time, and the scarcity of opportunity back then kind of fueled my ambition. But back in my day, every family I knew had a Super 8 camera, and that's what I first picked up. We adapt to the technology we have available. But for the kids of today, they can really make something great with what is available.

Tony Fernandes

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. Ive hired many people at very strange places.

Stephen Covey

We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

Stendhal

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

Stendhal

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

Sigmund Freud

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

Shakti Gawain

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Steven Pressfield

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.

Steven Brust

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

Steven Pinker

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.

Robert Browning

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Robert Browning

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Robbie Williams

I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.

Richard Steele

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

Michael Atherton

The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions

Rainer Maria Rilke

To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There, one is truly without a name, without ambition, without help; on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness.

Sidney Sheldon

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

Seth Grahame-Smith

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

Tobey Maguire

All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off, but they've all given me a fervor. An angry ambition that cannot be stopped-and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.

Rajneesh

Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures.

Rajneesh

The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be successful, and all these things create your tensions, your anxieties: how to be a celebrity?

Rajneesh

Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage.

Meredith Brooks

I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll.

Michael Moorcock

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

Michael Moorcock

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

John Quincy Adams

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

John Milton

Such joy ambition finds.

John Milton

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

Norbert Wiener

We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.

Norm MacDonald

I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money.