Quotes by Ambition Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all. Ann Patchett dull-life ambition writing The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. Anna Garlin Spencer achievement block ambition Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me. Anna Held congratulations ambition may An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition. Anna Kendrick actors humility ambition Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important. Anna Kendrick humility ambition humble It is easier to kill than to heal. It is easier to destroy than to preserve. It is easier to tear down than to build. Those who feed on destructive emotions and ambitions and deny the responsibilities that are the price of wielding power can bring down everything you care for and would protect. Be on guard, always. Anne Bishop tears ambition responsibility I see much less of an ambition gap and much more of a workplace and society that isn't allowing us to use the talent that is multiplied well beyond this room ... There are millions of women out there who ... need more than, Honey, you can do it if you try hard enough. Anne-Marie Slaughter powerful ambition trying I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes: ambition, secrecy, calculating. I mean, that is Lady Macbeth, a kind of cold woman. I don't think that's Hillary. And I don't think people would judge a man in the same way. Anne-Marie Slaughter ambition men mean Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. Anne Morrow Lindbergh ego ambition birthday The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs. Anne Rice ambition dream book Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. Anne Shirley ambition doe interesting Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity. Annette Funicello tenacity careers ambition The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.' Annie Fellows Johnston twenties ambition heart Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Anthony de Mello greed ambition life-is There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion Anthony de Mello powerful ambition children You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Anthony de Mello ambition spiritual order Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician. Anthony Trollope ambition desire men I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. Anthony Trollope castles ambition literature It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. Anthony Trollope progress parent ambition Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first. Archie Panjabi supportive parent ambition «23456789101112»
