Ambition Quotes - Page 24

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

  Ryan Holiday

  Humility, Resilience, Weakness

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.123, Profile Books

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• I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

  Corin Nemec

  Areas, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.

  Peter Hessler

  Pride, Organization, Keys

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• 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

  Parent, Supportive, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Jealous, Thinking, Driven

  "Jonathan Rhys Meyers Talks Tudors, Sex and Jealousy". Parade Interview, parade.com. April 1, 2009.

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• In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Men, Egalitarianism

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1005, Penguin

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• The one governmental agency that has no ambition.

  William O. Douglas

  Agency, Law

  William O. Douglas (1954). “An Almanac of Liberty”

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• Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

  Jenny Offill

  Looks, Coats, Way

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.65, Vintage

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• If i can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition i have is nothing but talk.

  Zoro

  Dream, Captains, One Piece

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Peaceful, Nuclear, Want

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• Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together.

  Colin Powell

  Iraq, Hatred, Together

  "Transcript of Powell's U.N. presentation". www.cnn.com. February 6, 2003.

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• We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do the right thing, that we will stand for the right cause, that we will be true to ourselves and to others. Then the pressures begin to build. Sometimes these are social pressures. Sometimes they are personal appetites. Sometimes they are false ambitions. There is a weakening of the will. There is a softening of discipline. There is capitulation. And then there is remorse, self-accusation, and bitter tears of regret.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Loyalty, Determination, Regret

  "And Peter Went Out and Wept Bitterly". General Conference, www.lds.org. April 1979.

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• One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Discipline, Tragedy

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• If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

  Blaise Pascal

  Pride, Men, Knowing

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

  Tory Burch

  Four, Letters, Embrace

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• Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years

  Tony Elumelu

  Years, Needs, Heirs

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• Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

  John W. Davis

  Politics, Initiative, Passing

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• The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Father, Eye, Son

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

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• But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

  Walker Percy

  Giving Up, Ordinary, Said

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

  Miranda Kerr

  Passion, Expanding, Findings

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• I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Men, Moral, Well Being

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.44

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• The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Animal, Law

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Wish, Weakness

  Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”

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• The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jealousy, Betrayal, Creativity

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.97, Cambridge University Press

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• Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.

  Joseph Addison

  Running, Mean, Men

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.400

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