Quotes of: Personal-ambitions Keyword

everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons...

Baruch Spinoza

His ambition was not to become wealthy or to be well known, an image which society for some reason dictates each individual should prescribe to, instead his only ambition was to be at peace with himself, if he could achieve that than anything else he...

Charnel House

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.

Dada Vaswani

I guess I don't have the cut-throat ambition that some other actresses have. I don't know how good that is for my career, but I know how good that is for me as a person. And to me, that's much more important.

Summer Phoenix

I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.

James W. Black

Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

Dom DeLuise

I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.

Carl Paladino

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

Angela Carter

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

James Madison

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Susan Sontag

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Omar Bongo

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

Mike McGavick

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

Erwin Raphael McManus

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

Paul Ryan

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Adam Smith

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

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

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

Neil Kinnock

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld