Quotes about ambition
ambition ignorance energy
It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance. Alfred P. Sloan
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. Albert Einstein
ambition long principles
Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense. Alexander Hamilton
ambition passion government
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest...
ambition tyrants principles
...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
ambition character federalism
The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in the State administrations as are capable of preferring their own emolument and advancement to the public weal.
ambition rights government
The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
ambition loss government
I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to divest the States of the authorities of that description. The regulation of the mere domestic police of a State appears to me to hold out slender allurements to ambition.
ambition character government
Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy.
ambition mean people
For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means. Adolf Hitler
ambition blood worth
I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian. Goodluck Jonathan
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There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust. Wayne Knight
ambition careers goal
It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook. Abigail Spencer
ambition pride sacrifice
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! Abigail Adams
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I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time. Chris Adrian
ambition self strings
As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.
ambition hard-work elbows
You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way. Andy Grove
ambition brave firsts
First ambitions are best. We are less brave later. Andrew Miller
ambition doctors desire
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. Allen Tate
ambition golf skills
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. Alistair Cooke
ambition essence feels
In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition. Andrea Bocelli
ambition years discipline
Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and I'd done all three since I was 9-years-old. I could sing, but I didn't become a great singer. Amy Winehouse
ambition dupes victim
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. Alphonse de Lamartine
ambition thinking shapes
I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life. Abbas Kiarostami
ambition desire burning
No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe. Adrian Rogers
ambition pay hollywood
My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent. Adrian Grenier
ambition independent circles
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you. Adam Smith
ambition common beautiful-mind
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
ambition men fellow-man
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Abraham Lincoln
ambition emotional coins
Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin. Jeffrey Kluger
ambition feel-good recognition
Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside. Alan Cohen
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Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a film opportunity came up, but it's a unique place, and you can reach saturation point. For me it was a place where creative desire and ambition meets desperation. It's in the air; it's palpable - I just didn't want to be around that. Darren Boyd
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True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.