Top 1200 High Ambition Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears

I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

Wanting to play the guitar was neither a wild dream nor a realistic ambition. It was simply inevitable.

I'm Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration...I can do aerobics in heels.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung out with a lot of guys in high school, and I did theater with a few of my close girlfriends.

For high school, everything is about what you wear, how you come to school, and in high school, a lot of people judge you. So fashion is something that can save you - at least, it saved me.

I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.

High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social unrest.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

I would say that the pivotal moment in singing for me was my sophomore year in high school, 'cause I always loved music but, even going into high school, I didn't know I wanted to make this my career.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.

Despite popular belief that watermelon is made up of only water and sugar, watermelon is actually a nutrient-dense food with a high amount of vitamins such as A and C, minerals such as iron and calcium, and is high in antioxidants.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?

When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn't impress me. But an entrepreneur who has that kind of a feeling of responsibility towards his investors is somebody who will have all my support.

It's true that PSG have the ambition to win the Champions League, so they could be interesting for a player like me.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Everyone in Senate is a hurdle, but everyone in there has children. Everyone in there has grandchildren. No one wants to see our kids continue to gain weight, have high blood pressure high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.

I think that there's a sense that procedurals, because they have more of a formula to the storytelling, it doesn't necessarily rate as high as some of the high-concept, big-idea, big-swing things that get the critics really excited.

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.

Fantasy novels give this illusion that the stakes are as high as they feel when you're a teenager. But I think for teenagers they actually are that high. I think you really are dealing in a world of tremendous cruelty and intensity, and YA gives truth to that.

The NCAA model is outdated. If Steve Serby's a great player in high school, and an agent wants to represent you and wants to advance you money as a loan based on the fact that you're gonna be a high draft choice, so be it.

I'm a firm believer of the venture capitalist-style approach to solving problems. Rather than doing many small things that you hope add up, it's much more effective to work on projects that are high risk and high reward.

The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.

One thing that did happen to me, though - in high school, there was a club to help prepare people for scholarships and they wouldn't let girls take the class. But I studied for it, and that year I was the only one from the high school who got the scholarship. That was my vindication.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.

In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices.

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

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.

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

I'm not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child.

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

I grew up with very hands-on jobs. I was raised on a farm and taught to work hard. In this high-tech, high-speed society, somewhere along the line, we got the message that if we're not a brain surgeon or an astronaut, we really shouldn't be proud of ourselves.

The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.

Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.

Winning an official World Cup with the South African team had become my burning ambition.

Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?

Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered almost at times existential high action, high drama surreal film that's sort of locked in his mind. And then have an opportunity to do that.