Quotes by Ambition 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 men people As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this. Benjamin Disraeli passion money ambition Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Benjamin Franklin sour disappointment ambition Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires. Benjamin Franklin disappointment ambition desire He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward. Benjamin Harvey Hill hate ambition christian I don't want to go to Portsmouth or any other club that has no ambitions. Benni McCarthy clubs ambition want Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature! Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle astronomy passion ambition My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive. Berthe Morisot capture ambition desire May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal. Bette Davis ambition goal successful What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself. Bette Midler cold pushing ambition I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. Bhagat Singh sacrifice real ambition People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind. Bianca Jagger powerful ambition men While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers. Bill Gates tools ambition doe I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed. Even foods are designed now. So in the process of helping people understand this, making them more aware of the fact that the world around us is something that somebody has control of, perhaps they can feel some sense of control, too. I think that’s a nice ambition. Bill Moggridge nice ambition thinking I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I've seen it. Bill Murray acting ambition desire True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God. Bill W. ambition grace profound To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony. Billie Burke ego ambition latin I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a Cause and a lot of other new things were popping up. (Again I'm trying to give you a finite version of this career.) And then I came under the sway of Wallace Stevens when I was in college and graduate school, and basically set as a life goal the ambition of writing third-rate Wallace Stevens. I thought I would be completely content if I was recognized at some later point in my life as a third-rate Wallace Stevens. Billy Collins ambition writing school If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice. Billy Corgan voice artist ambition When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition. Billy Idol rocks real ambition «7891011121314151617»
