Quotes by Ambition Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world. Elbert Hubbard happy-marriageambitionworld The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation. Elizabeth Barrett Browning careambitionheart A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions. Elizabeth Cady Stanton ambitionmindchildren In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton passiondisappointmentambition I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way. Elizabeth Ray disappointmentambitionpeople I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power. Elie Wiesel politicalambitionwant I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control. Ella Baker ambitionopportunitygiving I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition. Ella Maillart depressingweaknessambition Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress. Ellen G. White sacrificeambitionself I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky. Ellen Barkin vehemenceambitionwish People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty. Elizabeth Wurtzel fightingambitiondepression The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT. Elsa Schiaparelli ambitionway Live for each second without hesitation Elton John hesitationambition I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition. Emanuel Celler smellambitionsight Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. Ellen Hopkins descriptionabstractambition But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day? Elizabeth Gilbert gardenambitionnaps I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world? Emile M. Cioran ambitionwould-bedream Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme. Emile Hirsch theatreimportantambition Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight Elvis Presley ambitiondreamworld The vague torment of ... ambition. Emile Zola vaguetormentambition«2425262728293031323334»
