Quotes of: Ambition Keyword

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

Wilfred Owen

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.

Sheryl Sandberg

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say, 'We're sorry we did it,' that would be nice. But...

Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in any form, who have converted the very meaning of ambition so totally that it now registers as an act of disdain, a hostility to the poor common reade...

Ben Marcus

...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.

Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams

I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.

The Diary of a Country Priest

There are thousands of other women to choose from. You understand me? And this court runs on ambition alone.

Fury of the Phoenix

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

Graceling

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Alfred North Whitehead

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

William Whitehead

I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories, that is my main ambition. And to be working with amazing creators.

Stana Katic

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Petrarch

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Helmut Jahn

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

The Amulet of Samarkand

I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.

Henry VIII

Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.

The Infernals

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

Killosophy

Your aspirations are deeply influenced by your inspirations. Don't produce bad situations due to a lack of creative ambitions.

Sweet Destiny

That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.

Slammerkin

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

The Screwtape Letters

There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.

The Prince in Waiting