Ambition Quote by Jan Siegel Download Open image ““When ambition outstrips ability, that is always a recipe for disaster.”” — Jan Siegel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Motivation
“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
“Ambition can form an impenetrable barrier for those who fail to acknowledge what they already are.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Ambition interests me because it’s such a surefire indicator of damage.” — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“If Ambition be a Fault, ’tis only in those who have not a sufficient stock of Merit to support it ...” — Eliza Haywood 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
“If you don't set goals for yourself, you are doomed to achieve the goals of someone else.” — Brian Tracy 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
“The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed.” — Holly Black 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
“They slept little that night, making their newfound love like people for whom the world is running out. Fern did not think of her… — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
“They walked along in silence, that silence just before parting where everything has been left unsaid and it is too late now to say… — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
“There was a long pause. “you know,” he went on, “I sometimes think mankind is dangerously arrogant. We do a few sums, and then… — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
“I am only mortal, desperate, urgent. Spirits have endless ages in which to do nothing, if they so choose, but humans have death to… — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
“Everyone has to act out of character sometimes. It's like taking your clothes off: you feel free without your character but very naked, unprotected.… — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
“And she knew she was not sure, she would never be sure, because uncertainty is the essence of the human condition, and death is… — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
“As the chant grew in volume she began to be conscious of the terrible potency of language, the sense that a name spoken is… — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
“Lougarry was waiting over the brow of the hill, lying so still in the grass that a butterfly had perched within an inch of… — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
“Advice is a dangerous thing," the Watcher responded. "It should be given only rarely and cautiously, and taken in small doses with skepticism.” — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
“I am his lover. They had made no promises, no vows; this was an interlude which might end with the next sunset or ebb… — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
“You should never trust anyone completely,” said Ragginbone, smiling a half-smile which snaked up one side of his face. “Unpredictability is a vital aspect… — Jan Siegel 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