Top 1200 High Ambition Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

I feel that my drive and ambition is more American, while the passionate, laid-back side of me is all Brazilian.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

If Monaco retain the ambition of winning trophies in France and Europe - and that's why I came here - I will be delighted to stay.

To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

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

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

I have to make sure I stay focused and have the same ambition I've always had and work hard - that's the key to success.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you, sinking sinner ? This alone - I have a high priest in heaven, and he can support in the hour of affliction. This alone can give you peace-I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying - when friends can do you no good - when sins rise up like spectres around your bed - what can give you peace ? This - "I have a high priest in heaven"

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

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

If I hope for four or five sacks, and I only get two or three, that's still a good week for me, so I gotta go out there with those high hopes, those high expectations, and try to achieve them.

I never had an ambition to go into modeling, originally. I still can't believe how quickly it all took off.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?

I want to play football out on the pitch. I am not different to anyone else and the ambition never changes.

I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.

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

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

In 1999, I found myself the unlikely leader of a community-based effort to protect what was arguably Colorado's most important brand, and one once thought to be untouchable: the 'Mile High' part of Denver's Mile High Stadium.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

But, once again, when I said I'm so grateful for my mom just being adamant about me staying in public school - that is what allowed me to be exposed to so many different types of people. I went to a high school that was by the beach. I elected to do bussing my junior high school years. And my first year of high school, I would take the bus from my neighborhood to the beach schools. And at those schools, you had such a mix of so many types of kids.

Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.

Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions

Marriage is part of a sort of 50?s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.

My first show in high school was 'The Music Man.' I was a junior. I played Harold Hill. I did the role at the University of Miami, too. I do love that musical. To do it in high school and college and then to do it professionally - I mean, come on!

Intention implies assuming you can and have every right to achieve your ambition and that you are powerful enough to make it happen.

I see myself as having fulfilled a lot of my ambition. All the things I dreamed of achieving, I've achieved for the most part.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

Evan Bayh learned early that liberalism and ambition don't always mix in a red state like Indiana.

A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

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.

I don't think I focused on the financial part of it, but definitely, my ambition is to be great, and that always meant that the sky was the limit for what I was hoping to do.

My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.

Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.