Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.

Henry Drummond

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

John Dryden

Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.

John Locke

Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people, by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into the hands... and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and... provide for their own safety and security.

John Legend

I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers. .. Pursue this life of love with focus and passion and ambition and courage. Give it your all. And that will be your path to true success.

Jodie Foster

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Ambition - The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.

The research shows that our teenagers are full of ambition and really keen to have a career that offers good prospects,

David Nevins

I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points.

David Nevins

When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

Alan Hansen

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

Edward Gibbon

The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity.

Barney Frank

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

Heinrich Rohrer

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

Charles Horton Cooley

The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.

Charles Gounod

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

Bob Kaufman

I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten,

William Shakespeare

Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.

Bryan Brown

You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.

Cesare Pavese

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Bill Gates

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

Jean Todt

Our ambition is to finish third in the manufacturers' championship, and in this respect we took two points more than Toyota in Spa,

Our ambition is to come up with a better taxation system than that of the outgoing government.

The solution is to limit public sector ambition to that which can be reliably delivered given the human beings available and rebuild the available UK skills base, including user management and information systems - because technology is rarely the problem.

A driving ambition is of little use if you're on the wrong road

Now I have my new ambition to fly on my 100th birthday.

Jeremy Northam

I've never had an ambition to make that a part of my professional or personal life - I've done an awful lot of it, mainly in the States.

Rob Lowe

Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don't consider ambition to be a bad one. It's served me very well in my life. Very well.

This proposal from the Bank does not suggest a strong ambition to re-direct financing away from existing fossil fuel patterns, or to deliver sustainable energy to the two billion people currently without.

Benjamin Disraeli

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.