Ambition Quotes - Page 34

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest.

He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.

Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.

This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

Nature is my religion. And my desire...my ambition...the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it......if I can only get the two acquainted.

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.