Ambitions Quotes

387 Ambitions quotes by 324 unique authors

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body. — Thomas Moore
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must… — C.S. Lewis
How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim… — Arthur Conan Doyle
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions.… — Oscar Wilde
But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the cozy dinners and… — O. Henry
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We… — Rick Warren
Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the… — Richard Dawkins
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
It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There comes… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions. — Michael Moorcock
To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive… — P.B. Kerr
World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps — Rohinton Mistry
Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white,… — Pete Hamill
I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better… — Emile M. Cioran
I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no… — Lorrie Moore
In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In… — Julian Barnes
When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself,… — Augusten Burroughs
If you’re calling her a floozy, I’m by way of being a bit of a floozy myself.” “Oh, Jared,” said Kami, who was well aware… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that… — Catherynne M. Valente
Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better… — Og Mandino
Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings,… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we… — Wallace Stegner
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses… — Kazuo Ishiguro
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… — E. Lockhart

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