716 quotes found
“Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie”
“He hated House members who longed only to run for the Senate, and senators who longed only to run for the presidency. He was appalled by what he felt television had done to the Senate by the mid-fi...”
“In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.”
“Ambition is the intellectual equivalent of body odour.”
“At the end, we will arrive where we started.”
“Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.”
“There is no friendship between kings.”
“Embrace the beauty of good moment.”
“Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'.”
“It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with.”
“The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.”
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.”
“I know what other people think about me, Rusty told her. That Rusty, they say. Charming and handsome, they say first, of coursetheyre not blind. Then they add, All the ambition and drive of a choc...”
“You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well try what you do want.”
“I believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.”
“Spending time with people without ambition is a self-destruction.”
“The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love musi...”
“Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.”
“You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition.”
“I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith--contentment with a lowly place. I am a doctor and I know that ambition--the desire to succeed--to have power--leads to most ill...”
