Quotes on Ambition

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.

Take ones adversity _x000D_ Learn from their misfortune _x000D_ Learn from their pain _x000D_ Believe in something _x000D_ Believe in yourself _x000D_ Turn adversity into ambition _x000D_ Now blossom into wealth

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about dreams,' she corrected you, 'you're referring to your pathetic bourgeoisie ambitions. Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even on the continuity and professionalism of its foreign policy. France will be heeded if it has a message to convey. Faced with the temptations of laissez-faire, France must stand out as the nation with the imagination and determination to pursue an ambition that combines cogency with generosity.

To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.

If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.