Ambition Quotes - Page 5

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

In every step you take, keep your feet firmly on the ground.

Always stay one step a head, unless you’re already there

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

The only candid thing in life is time, nothing else flows seamlessly

With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild 'wanderess' ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me foolish and blind to where you find me now. The first time I saw her, fires were alight. It was a spicy night in Barcelona. The air was fragrant and free.

Whether you seek the prettiest rose despite the size of its thorns or praise a mediocre plant for the sake of its thorns, the plant's beauty remains subjective.

Even if we’ve never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church - even if we have, and vowed never to go back - deep down in our striving hearts, beneath all the ambition and the fear, we suspect that we were made for a different sort of life.

Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.

Change happens for you
the moment you want something
more than you fear it.

I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.

Embrace the beauty of good moment.

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution.

Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some compulsion: if he can't do what he knows he has to do with his life he might as well be dead. He's got to break through the world's indifference, or else break himself against it. He can't help it.

The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose.

If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance.

Let people stick to their philosophy, you stick to your passion.

People won't respect you until you achieve the respectable goals.

Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you asleep are nightmares.