Ambition Quotes - Page 25

Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don't think like that. I never have expectations like, 'When I'm 19 I'm going to do this, and by the time I've hit 25 I'm going to do that'. I just take things as they come, each day at a time, and if things happen then all well and good.

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.

A man can't just sit around.

You are not in business to be popular.

Human ambitions are like Japanese carp; they grow proportional to the size of their environment. Our achievements grow according to the size of our dreams and the degree to which we are in touch with our mission.

Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

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

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves; . . . the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness.

Many European parties, including the conventional parties in France, no longer have the ability to keep people together. And in terms of the coalition government, I am convinced that Angela Merkel has the necessary will and ambition. I want to be very cautious with my statements about her coalition negotiations, but support for Europe is part of the DNA of both the Greens and the Free Democratic Party. I was very pleased that the heads of both parties spoke out positively about the European project.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

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.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I've seen it.