Ambition Quotes - Page 4

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition, too.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.

Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.

My ambition is always to get better and better.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don't waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big... Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.

My ambition is to be happy.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through.

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.