Ambition Quotes - Page 48

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

Rodgers & Hammerstein shows have a purity of unironic emotion that imprints itself upon people's hearts. They seem to touch our feelings so effortlessly. They have a scope and ambition that's missing from many musicals now.

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with love until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender!

The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.

I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most difficult careers to create for yourself, I must be insane to embark on creating two careers in two of the most difficult fields. But I have really different ambitions with music; I just want to stay in love with music. I want it to continue to be a means of expression for me that feels like it's mine, and something that feels community-based.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.