Ambition Quote by Nicolas Chamfort Download Open image “Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.” — Nicolas Chamfort ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Folly Love Pleasant Serious Stupidity
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
LOVE, The only virtue that can be divided endlessly and still not be diminished; — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion. — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to… — Nicolas Chamfort 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
