Quotes of: Personal-ambitions Keyword

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Quintilian

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Quintilian

Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.

Ryan Lilly

Success come only through high ambition, good guidance, strong will, determining and effort.

Santonu Kumar Dhar

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.

Kimi Raikkonen

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.

Mos Def

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Milan Kundera

Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It's a reminder to stay on top of my game. That's not a place I want to go back to.

Meek Mill

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.

Rafi Zabor

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

Mercy Otis Warren

Ambition is what gives birth to imagination and then imagination directs the bearing towards its pursuit.

Newton Gatambia

Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision.

Nabil N. Jamal

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

Ella Maillart

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Bob Dylan

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

George W. Bush

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

Jim Henson

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Benjamin Disraeli

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Shakti Gawain

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Haruki Murakami

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Henry Van Dyke

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

H. G. Wells