Quotes by Ambition If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it. Doris Kearns Goodwin ambitioncomfortgiving Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the courage to become a resource in unfamiliar areas of knowledge and in ones for which one has no taste. But parents, no less than teachers, must respect a child's mind and not exploit it for their own vanity or ambition, or to soothe their own anxiety. Dorothy H Cohen ambitionteacherchildren What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are? Dorothy Canfield Fisher starsambitionknows I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried. Douglas Coupland greedambitionwar We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true. Duffy Daugherty ambitiondreamsports I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused. Dwight D. Eisenhower optimisticambitioncapacity If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters E. F. Schumacher economicmastersambition I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else. Dwight L. Moody ambitionheartbelieve A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits. E. Lockhart tomatoesambitionmay We grow small trying to be great. E. Stanley Jones ambitioninspirationalfunny Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. E. O. Wilson ambitionscienceknowledge My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty. Dwight D. Eisenhower dutyarmyambition That has always been my biggest ambition. To bring people together. To achieve a family spirit. Because then, you can actually do anything, because people are open to what they feel is real. Eddy de Clercq realambitionpeople Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Edgar Bergen procrastinationambitionbird Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. Edgar Quinet often-isparentambition Soul mates are brought together for a reason. All their lives they have been preparing for each other. When they look back at their lives they will see a new purpose to actions they have taken. Their lives take on a sense of oneness equalled by no other. Oneness of purpose, ambition, and love which can be a beacon to others along their spiritual paths. Edgar Cayce takenambitionspiritual Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Edmund Spenser striveambitionlows History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite. Edmund Burke prideambitionrevenge Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong. Edgar Allan Poe ambitionrevengemen Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character Edward Bates passionstrongambition«2122232425262728293031»
