Ambition Quote by Douglas Coupland Download Open image ““This is not ambition. This is desperation.”” — Douglas Coupland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Motivation
“...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Don't mistake determination for desperation. Someone who is persistent will stop at nothing to get their way.” — Mary Sage Nguyen Copy Share Image
“Ambition is the undoing of men. They always want what they know to be impossible and unattainable. And they are unaware of the attainable.” — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“I don't know what good ambition's ever done to anybody. It's the kind of thing that turns to dead sea fruit in your mouth.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“When ambition exceeds ability, you are going to experience hardship. We have the choice to fear it or embrace it.” — Kevin Jorgenson Copy Share Image
“I say that ambition is absurd, and yet I remain in its thrall. It’s like being a slave all your life, then learning one… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“I suppose I'm ambitious for something in spite of the fact that most things known as success don't inspire me to try for them… — Robert McAlmon Copy Share Image
“Desperation breeds people who are willing to do anything to get what they need.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world… — Douglas Coupland 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
