Quotes about ambition
ambition writing dull-life
Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all. Ann Patchett
ambition climbing practice
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. Anatoli Boukreev
ambition responsibility tears
It is easier to kill than to heal. It is easier to destroy than to preserve. It is easier to tear down than to build. Those who feed on destructive emotions and ambitions and deny the responsibilities that are the price of wielding power can bring down everything you care for and would protect. Be on guard, always. Anne Bishop
ambition play villain
It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain. Angelina Jolie
ambition character heart
It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay, here's where we are in the world. Now we're just going to go inside this person's head, this guy's heart, this woman's ambitions and take it down to very, very small scale." Don Winslow
ambition judgement recipes
Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success. Dale Carnegie
ambition iraq hatred
Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together Colin Powell
ambition boyhood
I never had any boyhood ambitions. Daniel Craig
ambition people looks
Something I don't like seeing in other people is naked ambition, when somebody is really pushing hard to get to where they want to be. That's the way I look at that word - like you must be stepping on someone to get there. And I've never been comfortable with that. Clive Owen
ambition play light
Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes—if necessary—brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must. Clive Barker
ambition aim-high aim
Aim High, Drive hard. Donald Trump
ambition order greed
You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Anthony de Mello
ambition greed life-is
Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
ambition careers tenacity
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity. Annette Funicello
ambition humility actors
An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition. Anna Kendrick
ambition people hollywood
When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer. Anita Loos
ambition mean heart
The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other. Ameen Rihani
ambition men analysis
The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Ambrose Bierce
ambition burning accomplished
I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it Claire Bloom
ambition summit my-ambition
I have reached the summit of my ambition. Andrew Johnson
ambition people political
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear dangers from abroad ... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power - that factions will be formed and liberty endangered ... Andrew Jackson
ambition order america
No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American will describe as noble and estimable ambition that our medieval ancestors would have called base cupidity. Alexis de Tocqueville
ambition men democracy
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.
ambition character men
Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.
ambition desire ambitious
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.
ambition actresses chameleon
My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize. Alexandra Roach
ambition biggest rival stay win
Lyon's biggest rival is Lyon itself. We need to stay vigilant. Our ambition is to win the treble.
ambition best clubs easy europe games hard none past prove teams
None of these games are easy. All the other teams are hard and want to win. Nothing is easy in this draw, but it is our ambition to prove we are one of the best clubs in Europe - and we have yet to get past the quarter-finals, so we have something to prove.
ambition book currently follow fresh immediate next page word
My ambition is the immediate page of the book I am currently working on. The next word to follow the last. A fresh new idea.
ambition business coming family good suited
My ambition has always been to give them good opportunities and if coming into the family business suited them, then great. Brian White
ambition british-actor community desire genuine greatest greeting local rather serve sound
My greatest ambition may sound rather like something from a greeting card, but it is a genuine desire to serve a local community and be a local MP. Adam Rickitt
ambition comment dramatic fine great people success
My great ambition is to have people comment on my fine dramatic performances. Marilyn Monroe
ambition understanding should
Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.' Eleanor Roosevelt