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 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
