Ambition Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in…

— Susan Jacoby

People look at my tattoos, and the majority of them are religious images, so people think, 'Oh, he must be very religious'. I respect…

— David Beckham

“For all serious intellectual progress depends upon a certain kind of independence of outside opinion, which cannot exist where the will of the majority…

— Bertrand Russell

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

— Mark Twain

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or…

— Ravi Shankar

There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in…

— Trevor Phillips

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in…

— Mark Twain

Value investing is risk aversion.

— Seth Klarman

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

— Douglas B. Reeves