Quotes by Ambition Welcome to the graveyard of ambition. David Nicholls graveyardwelcomeambition Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope. David St. John clothesambitionprayer It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality. Davy Crockett strongambitionreality As far as I can remember, I have always wanted everything from life, everything it can possibly give me. This desire separates me from people who are willing to settle for less. I cannot even comprehend how people's desires can be small, ambitions narrow and limited, when the possibilities are endless Deborah Feldman ambitiongivingpeople A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself. Deena Kastor self-motivationambitiongoal My ambition is peace and perfection. DeForest Kelley my-ambitionambitionperfection Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past. Dean Koontz realambitionlove Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns. Dejan Stojanovic clownambitiousambition The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself. Denis Waitley perseveranceambitioninspirational Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this was the real condition of humanity: The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future. Dean Koontz realambitiondream On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders. Dervla Murphy indiaambitionchildren You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry. Dhani Harrison dadambitionmean Secret of my success was to have ambition and know minds of men. Dhirubhai Ambani powerfulambitioninspirational Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India. Dhirubhai Ambani ambitiondreamcommitment I always wonder what drives us as Artists. Diana Krall artistambitionwonder One must have ambition and one must understand the minds ... of men. Dhirubhai Ambani powerfulambitioninspirational People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them. Diane Setterfield ambitionpeoplethinking Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them. Diane Setterfield niceambitionmen Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: 'For the next five months you'll be working for us, for goals we shall determine. Is that clear? After May 5 you may look after your own needs and ambitions, but report back to us next January. Now move along.' ... If nearly half of what you make is spent by someone else, that means that half your work time is spent working for someone else. Call me a radical, but I think that comes dangerously close to being a form of indentured servitude. Dick Armey ambitionmeanmoving Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a relief to know that I could now experience what you were experiencing yourself. I am so afraid that they are breaking your spirit. Diet Eman reliefambitioncharacter«1920212223242526272829»
