Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luc de Clapiers

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

Luc de Clapiers

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

John Brunner

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

Louise Fletcher

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.

You could tell then that he was an outstanding coach and a brilliant tactician. He was full of initiative and ambition and, having had an impeccable pedigree as a player, it's not a surprise that he's flourishing as a coach.

Joseph Estrada

The truth is also imprisoned because of the personal ambition and interests of a few. This truth should be set free now.

Eric Idle

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

Eric Hoffer

The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time not only because I am without a multitude of responsibilities and without daily tasks, which demand attention: But also because I am basically without ambition. Neither the present nor the future has claims on me.

Matthew Miller

You can still strike it rich with technology. If you have a smart idea, a lot of ambition and a lot of luck, Silicon Valley is where some billionaires are going to be made.

James F. Cooper

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Napoleon Hill

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Napoleon Hill

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Norman Mailer

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Norman O. Brown

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

Orison Swett Marden

Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from ease and the consciousness of inherited wealth. Whatever lessens in a young man the feeling that he must make his way in the world cripples his chance of success. Poverty has ever been the priceless spur that has goaded man up to his own loaf.

Oliver Bierhoff

All sporting ambition considered, there should always be a relationship to Germany.

O. Henry

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

Octavia Butler

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Octavia Butler

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Emile Hirsch

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

Emile Zola

The vague torment of ... ambition.

Emile M. Cioran

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

Ellen G. White

Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.

Eric Ries

The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build-the thing customers want and will pay for-as quickly as possible. In other words, the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.

Epicurus

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

Emily Dickinson

Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

Abraham Lincoln

These office-seekers are a curse to the country; no sooner was my election certain, than I became the prey of hundreds of hungry persistent applicants for office, whose highest ambition is to feed at the Government's crib

Bill Robinson

It's something we need to pass on. I have to thank my God for giving me the talent and ambition to pursue (it). I thank everyone that's been involved over the years.

O. Henry

It's important that Arsenal has the same sporting ambition as me. Deep down I would love to win the Champions League.

It's very frustrating. The lads showed a lot of ambition in the first half, they went out to sustain it in the second but couldn't build on it.

Jean Fernandez

It's hard to talk about ambition when you look at the nature of this game.

Alan Cohen

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.