Quotes about ambition
ambition world happy-marriage
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world. Elbert Hubbard
ambition men energy
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
ambition merit use
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. Eleanor Roosevelt
ambition mean eye
What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others. But do not be daunted, do whatever it is because you know within it is right for you. Eileen Caddy
ambition writing meditation
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel. Edward Abbey
ambition someday enough
My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
ambition anxiety feelings
Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend. Atom Egoyan
ambition exercise self
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage. Aristotle
ambition men desire
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
ambition people wish
It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
ambition important missions
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition. Ben Horowitz
ambition needs slave
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need Ben Jonson
ambition self law
Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.
ambition thinking boys
Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy. Dom DeLuise
ambition singers toes
I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled. Dionne Warwick
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should reflect with courage and ambition a growing demand regarding this issue by the international community. Jorge Sampaio
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When you're 14, 15, and you get together and start making a noise, it is the world opening up. You have that indestructible feeling when you're young. But your ambitions when you are 13 are different when you're 25. By that time, your ambition isn't to be a star anymore; it's to make a living doing music. Stevie Jackson
ambition numbers satisfied
Once you've been number one, you can never be satisfied with less. Chris Evert
ambition kids going-out
When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late 40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least. Dick Van Dyke
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Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. Not here - not now. Ellis Peters
ambition cause fear lowering overall round
My fear is that in lowering expectations for Hong Kong, we will cause the overall ambition for the round to fall. Peter Mandelson
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Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious. Tom Cotton
ambition college rights
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news. Bob Edwards
ambition welcome graveyard
Welcome to the graveyard of ambition David Nicholls
ambition crowns might
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow. Abraham Lincoln
ambition race years
Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.
ambition battle create current fighting godless ignore money property society
If we ignore our pasts and try to create a Godless society where things like money or ambition or property are worshipped, then the society loses. ... It is a battle we are fighting at the current time. Rocco Buttiglione
ambition artist voice
If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice. Billy Corgan
ambition desire capture
My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive. Berthe Morisot
ambition mean thinking
Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one. C. S. Lewis
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Marriage was never a dream or an ambition for me. I thank my real mother for the fact that - unlike my sitcom mother - she never put any pressure on me or my sister to marry. Miranda Hart
ambition heart warrior
Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: 'Does this path have a heart?' Carlos Castaneda
ambition wish looks
Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.