Ambition Quotes - Page 11

Flythe kitesof your soul,letyour spiritsoar.

Ask a woman if she’s ambitious and she’ll look at you as if you just asked whether she sticks pins in puppies for fun. Ask a woman if she’s competitive and she’ll look at you as if you suggested that she’s a hooker.

Gina Barreca

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Mae West

The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life is politics, you do it or it does you

Bangambiki Habyarimana

In politics what you see is not what you get

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other according to his actions

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Power hungry=life loving

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Nothing is sweeter and addictive than power, the unlucky soul this demon possesses, if he is not sacrificed on its altar will sacrifice others himself to get it

Bangambiki Habyarimana

If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Powerless=lifeless.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part and parcel of nature and we cannot do without them. Sometimes evil is even necessary to run this evil nature.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

It's unfortunate to be bitten by political ambition. The deadly disease causes a man to want to access power by all means either by sacrificing others to its altar or by sacrificing himself when he fails.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry

Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience.

Barack Obama

Frustration of my plans to lighten the disaster will convince people that the future holds no promise for them. Already they recall the lives of their grandfathers with envy. They will see that political revolutions and trade stagnations will increase. The feeling will pervade the Galaxy that only what a man can grasp for himself at that moment will be of any account. Ambitious men will not wait and unscrupulous men will not hang back. By their every action they will hasten the decay of the worlds.

Isaac Asimov

Power is a beautiful thing.

A.H. Septimius

In these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.

Suzy Kassem

Of course, if one does not fully trust the promise of God's Kingdom, he will have a hard time taking risks and making sacrifices in this life. A gospel centered around the temporal self - fleeting happiness, earthly success, vain prosperity, things such as these - is the primary ambition of the half-hearted Christian; the one who somewhat believes he is subject to an eternal death; the one who just might believe in men before God, who morbidly fears seeming less than anyone else. The man of this school feels deeply that he has but one life to live, that this must be his only chance, and therefore must have it all in his favor - from glory to comfort to riches - and have it right this instant. He is but hinting that he is overcome because he insists always that he must overcome, that his judgment comes now and by the persons around him. The point is, however, in this sense, that by grace the Christian is indeed free, but only for as long as he wants to be free - the practicality of true freedom: that of God which offers not so much freedom to be like the world as it does freedom from the pressures of having to be like the world. For Divine Law is based solely on love and freedom; whereas secular law, pressure and imitation.

Criss Jami

Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their own and usurped power from the rest of us. But they are usurpers; power belongs to every one of us. Seek it as much as possible. There is no shame in that. In fact it's a necessity. Either you have power or you are trampled to death in the stampede to get to the top

Bangambiki Habyarimana

There is far more happiness in a life that is your own than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make. Do not ever be ambitious.

Ken Liu

I had no goals, no ambitions. That left me free to wander and amuse myself.

Marty Rubin

The greatest energy must be use for work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The true cost of following your dreams isn't what you sacrifice when you chase them, it's what you lose when you don't

Simon S Tam

Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Though we may not have reached the heights we anticipated yesterday, today is a brand new day to begin a new climb.

Chinonye J. Chidolue

My vision is to change the world and paint it with a brush that is powerful enough to make us one.

Morgan Chabane

Ignite the fire in thy soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents.

Michael Bassey Johnson

...one person's dreams can become another's baggage.

Nilesh Rathod

Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want.

Constance Friday

We as human beings have an obligation to face up to the dreams that we keep hidden deep within ourselves. Only what we do out of love is successful in the long run. But first we have to figure out what it is that we love.

Dorthe Binkert

To become a better you, secure your dreams from the jaws of people who discredit your ambitions.

Israelmore Ayivor

Disturb my sleep but darling don't dare disturb my dreams!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

It is tempting to quit striving toward a goal when you have neither the time, the resources, the support, the means, nor perhaps the confidence in talent to reach the level of standing you wish to reach. But these are not reasons to quit. Move forward anyway. Try your best. Put what little you do have into accomplishing what you can, because along the way you may attain a portion of what you feel is lacking. And owning a portion of a dream is better than owning no dream at all. Never give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Never let your regrets outnumber your dreams

Bobby Darnell

None of us have reached the peak of perfection, but it shouldn’t stop anyone from trying to make the climb.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Have a dream in your head and a fire in your heart.

Fennel Hudson

We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the raw edges of the word; and in between puffs, we would smile, and dream of owning those streets, dreaming the same dreams that we scorned others for.

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want.

Joyce Rachelle

If I can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition I have is nothing but talk! Luffy must be the man who becomes the Pirate King!Roronoa Zoro

Eiichirō Oda

The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

John Green

I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.

J.M. August

When it comes to fighting for your dreams, be a dragon. Breathe fire.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

Martin Luther King Jr.

I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.

Dara Torres

Put work into your dreams.

Lesley D. Nurse

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Salvador Dalí

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

Marilyn Monroe

If [Patricia Highsmith] saw an acquaintance walking down the sidewalk she would deliberately cross over so as to avoid them. When she came in contact with people, she realised she split herself into many different, false, identities, but, because she loathed lying and deceit, she chose to absent herself completely rather than go through such a charade. Highsmith interpreted this characteristic as an example of 'the eternal hypocrisy in me', rather her mental shape-shifting had its source in her quite extraordinary ability to empathise. Her imaginative capacity to subsume her own identity, while taking on the qualities of those around her - her negative capability, if you like - was so powerful that she said she often felt like her inner visions were far more real than the outside world. She aligned herself with the mad and the miserable, 'the insane man who feels himself one with all mankind, all life, because in losing his mind, he has lost his ego, his self-ness', yet realised that such a state inspired her fiction. Her ambition, she said, was to write about the underlying sickness of this 'daedal planet' and capture the essence of the human condition: eternal disappointment.

Andrew Wilson

Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.

Eoin Colfer

Your future, hopes and dreams should never be tied down to anybody! The strength lies inside of you to decide at any moment your direction.

Chinonye J. Chidolue

Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere — anywhere.

Charlotte Eriksson

Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,more perfect than all that a man can invent.

Roman Payne

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

Criss Jami

To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.

Criss Jami

With a burning ambition, sustained focus, and daily action - there simply are no limits to what you will achieve.

Curtis Rivers

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