Ambition Quote by Joseph Epstein Download Open image ““It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.”” — Joseph Epstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Ambitious Ambitious Envious Difficult Difficult Ambitious Envious Envy Jealousy
“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
“Be honest with yourself; set the alarm for the time the Real You will get up, not the Ambitious You, because the Ambitious You… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
“Don't be envious of the Success of others, but let it be your Motivation to thrive” — Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie Copy Share Image
“those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious” — Spinoza Copy Share Image
“It’s OK to be envious – but only of the person you aspire to become.” — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
“If you are living your life to the best of your ability, and pursuing your purpose, you will not be jealous, envious or try… — Dee Dee M. Scott Copy Share Image
“I hope I'll never get ambitious enough to try anything. It's so much nicer to be damned sure I could do it better than… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
“I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who I am.… — Steve Maraboli 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
“There are fewer ambitious individuals in the world today than individuals who believe they are morally obliged to be ambitious.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila 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 one is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.” — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment…” — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with… — Joseph Epstein 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
