Quotes by Ambition We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary. C. J. Mahaney selfishprideambition Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. C. J. Mahaney selfishpurposeambition And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. C. S. Lewis ambitiongodwar We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us. C. S. Lewis ambitionjoysex Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. C. S. Lewis ambitionwishlooks Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one. C. S. Lewis ambitionmeanthinking Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off. C. S. Lewis strongambitionsweet We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. Calvin Coolidge effortambitiontime Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition. Calvin Trillin nakedambitiondrinking The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher. Calvin Trillin starsambitionbaseball Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. Camille Paglia no-problemproblemambition Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same. Candace Bushnell ambitiongraceexpectations My ambition cannot be stopped! Cao Cao my-ambitionambition The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. Carl Sagan ambitionperfectscience An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me." Carl Sandburg ambitionheartsong If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles. Carl von Clausewitz ambitionmilitaryleadership Public people are definitely captives. It wasn't really my ambition, but that's what happened. If I could find another word that would be more precise, I'd tell that I'm captive of my need for acknowledgement. People ask me, "Isn't it terrible to be famous?" Not for me! I sort of need it. To be honest, I always enjoyed it. It's as if it gave me some structure. It's as if I needed someone else's eyes to look at myself. Carla Bruni eyeambitionpeople Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: 'Does this path have a heart?' Carlos Castaneda ambitionfearheart Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity. Carlos Ruiz Zafon ambitionwarart One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way. Carlos Ruiz Zafon ambitionbridgesway«1011121314151617181920»
