Quotes about ambition
ambition thinking term
I dont even think in terms of ambition. Kevin Spacey
ambition careers focus
Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
ambition government sacred
Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors. Jonathan Swift
ambition jealous thinking
I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end. Jonathan Rhys Meyers
ambition missions
Politics for me is not Ambition but a Mission. Narendra Modi
ambition way doe
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way. Napoleon Hill
ambition emotional order
For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will. Louise J. Kaplan
ambition visionaries serving-god
The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions. George Barna
ambition chief home married
(A girl's) chief ambition then, as now, was to get married and have a home and children. Dorothy Dix
ambition self making-money
If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency; a faith warmer than that of reasoning; a love purer than that of the self; he has been slow to express it; still slower to urge it. Henry Adams
ambition men desire
No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging. Henry David Thoreau
ambition giving satisfaction
Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent. Mahatma Gandhi
ambition humanity battle
In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.
ambition government people
A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal. John Adams
ambition intellectual fields
Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.
ambition office revolution
Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!
ambition men presidential
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
ambition soul mouths
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. James Joyce
ambition ambitious
I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions. James Richardson
ambition sublime lines
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. James Russell Lowell
ambition pride purpose
Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them. Laurence Sterne
ambition garden plants-growing
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. Liberty Hyde Bailey
ambition democracies-have democracy
Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force. Franklin D. Roosevelt
ambition wealth prosperity
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
ambition people political
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
ambition befriending easy
I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab. George Galloway
ambition records late
My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor. Jon Landau
ambition power design
Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard. Jon Anderson
ambition understanding soul
Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them. Luigi Pirandello
ambition
Ambition is the death of thought. Ludwig Wittgenstein
ambition eye pedestal
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition. Luc de Clapiers
ambition brilliant coach full impeccable initiative pedigree surprise
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.
ambition free imprisoned interests personal truth
The truth is also imprisoned because of the personal ambition and interests of a few. This truth should be set free now. Joseph Estrada