716 quotes found
“If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.”
“Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been har...”
“From the very beginning Ihad felt a definite contact with Yeamon, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to...”
“My ambition is not to leave behind me a pile of money for my heirs to quarrel about, but to find out what there is of interest in this world before I cross the border and begin to explore the other...”
“...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.”
“The only way the weight of the world can break you down, is if you carry it the wrong way.”
“THE EMPRESS LO was not beautiful but she was ambitious and, sometimes, ambition can take you further than beauty. The women of the court never wondered how she got this far because as all women kno...”
“Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.”
“The visions of a healthy brain,Give us pleasure over and again;For this home was done,From the daytime dreams of one.”
“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”
“I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.”
“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took a...”
“When ambition ends, happiness begins.”
“Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.”
“Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.”
“Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!”
“The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.”
“Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.”
“The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.”
“I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.”
