Ambitions Quotes

387 Ambitions quotes by 324 unique authors

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. — H.G. Wells
As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army… — Arjun Rampal
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too,… — Mark Twain
All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its… — Jack Kirby
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in… — John Steinbeck
No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their… — Libba Bray
Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,… — Joseph Conrad
Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of… — Luigi Pirandello
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly. — Alan Lightman
My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me. — Susanna Kaysen
India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it,… — Thrity Umrigar
Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her… — Candace Bushnell
The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing. — Nicole Blackman
We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to… — Michael Chabon
I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When… — Albert Camus
There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. — Colleen McCullough
Rahel’s toy wristwatch had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could… — Arundhati Roy
In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free… — Mary Roach
Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber… — C.S. Lewis
Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become… — Clive Barker
a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a… — Philip Roth
Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. — Ellen Hopkins

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