Quotes of: Personal-ambitions Keyword

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

There are two ways of spreading light to be candle,or the mirror that reflects it.

Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition

Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.

The Twelve Rooms of the Nile

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.

Burton Cummings

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

Rob Morrow

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Hilary Mantel

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

Joseph Conrad

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

Oliver Herford

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Peter Carey

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson