Quotes about ambition
ambition attention distraction
It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had. Brendon Burchard
ambition retiring my-ambition
Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition. Brenda Blethyn
ambition growth chivalry
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition. Bono
ambition thinking
I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar"... Barack Obama
ambition men self
The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition Bruce Lee
ambition sky lows
They build too low who build beneath the skies. Edward Young
ambition strive lows
Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw. Edmund Spenser
ambition power may
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded. Edmund Burke
ambition thinking abuse
I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded....We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.
ambition shining sun
The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.
ambition vanity sin
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
ambition perfection my-ambition
My ambition is peace and perfection. DeForest Kelley
ambition artist wonder
I always wonder what drives us as Artists. Diana Krall
ambition littles accomplish
It is remarkable what a woman can accomplish with just a little ambition. Elizabeth Arden
ambition names soul
The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with eroticism, demanding more indulgence more often until a degenerative spiral captures the soul and drags us on a never ending descent into deeper patterns of immorality and illicit behaviour... Lust goes beyond the sexual. Lust can show itself in a variety of forms: covetousness, gluttony, drunkeness, power hunger, or unbridled ambition, to name a few Edwin Louis Cole
ambition often-is parent
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. Edgar Quinet
ambition golf too-much
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker. Bobby Jones
ambition matter bears
This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you. Augusten Burroughs
ambition years hundred
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time. Arthur Koestler
ambition reality understanding
One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality. Art Spiegelman
ambition people attention
With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people. Azim Premji
ambition world moments
You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached. Ayn Rand
ambition law miracle
Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept.
ambition men liberty
Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him.
ambition erosion goal
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
ambition men people
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. Benjamin Disraeli
ambition thinking trying
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it. Ben Elton
ambition my-ambition
My ambition cannot be stopped! Cao Cao
ambition earning comfortable
I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living. Craig Ferguson
ambition broader bug consuming doom energies genuine good news outside prophecies represent society stable technical using worldview
The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences. Virginia Postrel
ambition reader bounds
But a reader's ambition knows no bounds. Alberto Manguel
ambition library alexandria
If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of omnipresence; the library that contained everything has become the library that contains anything.
ambition men imagination
We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the warning that all we gather will be lost, but also that much of it can be collected again; we can learn from its splendid ambition that what was one man's experience can become, through the alchemy of words, the experience of all, and how that experience, distilled once again into words, can serve each singular reader for some secret, singular purpose.