Ambition Quote by Anthony Powell Download Open image ““Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.”” — Anthony Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Unambitious
“We all want to be the best at something. Trouble is, some people are only the best at being second best. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The people who get the best out of others are those who insist on seeing them at their best.” — William Barclay Copy Share Image
“We should only strive to be first-rate versions of ourselves. And our best is always good enough.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“No one is entirely good or entirely bad, no matter how much we might want them to be.” — Rose Foster Copy Share Image
“We all have our moments of weakness. Even the best of us. Luckily, we have friends who keep us in line. I like to… — S.K.S. Perry Copy Share Image
“That all any of us has to give is our best. if we do that. we succeed, no matter what the outcome.” — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Like everything that's any good, it has about twenty different meanings.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all undertakings of life;but then, after all, plenty of actors… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the writing.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“It is rather an occasion, darling,’ said Moreland, vexed at these objections. ‘After all, I am noted among composers for the smallness of my… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
