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Image of Richard Koch
Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.
- Richard Koch
Collection: Ambition
Image of Theodore Zeldin
To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.
- Theodore Zeldin
Collection: Ambition
Image of Pindar
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
- Pindar
Collection: Ambition
Image of Kristin Cashore
Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.
- Kristin Cashore
Collection: Ambition
Image of Art Spiegelman
One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.
- Art Spiegelman
Collection: Ambition
Image of W. Cleon Skousen
Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world. To achieve this, they were perfectly willing to feed the ambitions of the power-hungry political conspirators who were committed to the overthrow of all existing governments and the establishment of a central worldwide dictatorship.
- W. Cleon Skousen
Collection: Ambition
Image of Luke Scott
Ambition wants us to improve our lot, basically, but I can't help thinking we're pursuing a return to a technological Eden. We do try to create a paradise on Earth, because we are hubristic and we want to surpass this notion of God and then ourselves become gods.
- Luke Scott
Collection: Ambition
Image of Anne Bishop
It is easier to kill than to heal. It is easier to destroy than to preserve. It is easier to tear down than to build. Those who feed on destructive emotions and ambitions and deny the responsibilities that are the price of wielding power can bring down everything you care for and would protect. Be on guard, always.
- Anne Bishop
Collection: Ambition
Image of E. Lockhart
A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.
- E. Lockhart
Collection: Ambition
Image of Michael Moorcock
Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.
- Michael Moorcock
Collection: Ambition
Image of Charles R. Schwab
There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
- Charles R. Schwab
Collection: Ambition
Image of Hyman Rickover
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.
- Hyman Rickover
Collection: Ambition
Image of Alfred P. Sloan
It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.
- Alfred P. Sloan
Collection: Ambition
Image of David Oyelowo
My ambition is to keep the audience guessing... that is my path to a long career.
- David Oyelowo
Collection: Ambition
Image of Elsa Schiaparelli
The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.
- Elsa Schiaparelli
Collection: Ambition
Image of Kim Basinger
I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.
- Kim Basinger
Collection: Ambition
Image of Kathe Koja
You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire. And if you will be happy, you must follow that desire, no matter which way the needle points.
- Kathe Koja
Collection: Ambition
Image of John Cowper Powys
Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
- John Cowper Powys
Collection: Ambition
Image of Raymond Burr
Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain...
- Raymond Burr
Collection: Ambition
Image of George Chapman
Tis immortality to die aspiring.
- George Chapman
Collection: Ambition
Image of Julius Caesar
If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.
- Julius Caesar
Collection: Ambition
Image of Leon M. Lederman
Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.
- Leon M. Lederman
Collection: Ambition
Image of Herbert Newton Casson
The men who succeed are the efficient few.
- Herbert Newton Casson
Collection: Ambition
Image of Elizabeth Arden
It is remarkable what a woman can accomplish with just a little ambition.
- Elizabeth Arden
Collection: Ambition
Image of Eileen Caddy
What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others. But do not be daunted, do whatever it is because you know within it is right for you.
- Eileen Caddy
Collection: Ambition
Image of Bill W.
True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
- Bill W.
Collection: Ambition
Image of Norman O. Brown
To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.
- Norman O. Brown
Collection: Ambition
Image of Ruben Dario
The treacheries of ambition never cease.
- Ruben Dario
Collection: Ambition
Image of Patty Sheehan
Women Who Seek Equality With Men Lack Ambition
- Patty Sheehan
Collection: Ambition
Image of Rob Delaney
I think your ambition for something changes as you go.
- Rob Delaney
Collection: Ambition
Image of Marie Bashkirtseff
To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.
- Marie Bashkirtseff
Collection: Ambition
Image of Marie Bashkirtseff
What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.
- Marie Bashkirtseff
Collection: Ambition
Image of Majandra Delfino
It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
- Majandra Delfino
Collection: Ambition
Image of Ben Horowitz
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.
- Ben Horowitz
Collection: Ambition
Image of Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.
- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Collection: Ambition
Image of Paul Allen
Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high
- Paul Allen
Collection: Ambition
Image of Rachel Field
The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!
- Rachel Field
Collection: Ambition
Image of William Lilly
Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.
- William Lilly
Collection: Ambition
Image of Satya Nadella
Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.
- Satya Nadella
Collection: Ambition
Image of Takafumi Horie
Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the moon. I want to go to Mars! I want to eventually go beyond the solar system!
- Takafumi Horie
Collection: Ambition
Image of Ha-Joon Chang
Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.
- Ha-Joon Chang
Collection: Ambition
Image of Mark Antony
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.
- Mark Antony
Collection: Ambition
Image of Berthe Morisot
My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.
- Berthe Morisot
Collection: Ambition
Image of Washington Allston
I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.
- Washington Allston
Collection: Ambition
Image of Gerald Early
The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.
- Gerald Early
Collection: Ambition
Image of Arturo Sandoval
To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.
- Arturo Sandoval
Collection: Ambition
Image of Philip II of Macedon
My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions. Macedon is too small for you.
- Philip II of Macedon
Collection: Ambition
Image of Claire Bloom
I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it
- Claire Bloom
Collection: Ambition
Image of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Collection: Ambition