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Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated. ~ Maud Adams
Great Ambition quotes by Maud Adams
In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can't pick up a page. All the words slide off. ~ William H Gass
Great Ambition quotes by William H Gass
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. ~ Saint Augustine
Great Ambition quotes by Saint Augustine
If you have drive,
your ambition is great.
If you have discipline,
your willpower is great.
If you have determination,
your focus is great. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Great Ambition quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
Great ambition without contribution is without significance.
The Emperor's Club ~ Steve William Laible
Great Ambition quotes by Steve William Laible
I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it. ~ Michael Birch
Great Ambition quotes by Michael Birch
By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core. ~ Evan Osnos
Great Ambition quotes by Evan Osnos
Having a Great Ambition is also a Meditation. When our efforts are focussed sincerely, even during sleep, our brains will work on it, in the form of Dreams. ~ Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan
Great Ambition quotes by Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan
For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great. ~ Johnny Depp
Great Ambition quotes by Johnny Depp
I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure. ~ David Friedman
Great Ambition quotes by David Friedman
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. ~ Adam Smith
Great Ambition quotes by Adam Smith
I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet. ~ Shia Labeouf
Great Ambition quotes by Shia Labeouf
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Great Ambition quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
What you love will find a way to draw you in to its space; your purpose will captivate you and stimulate your soul into action. It will not come from a noisy place where fears and worries can reign supreme; it will come from a place of silence, a place of hope, faith, and free of limits. Your purpose becomes your compulsion; your great ambition. ~ Christine Evangelou
Great Ambition quotes by Christine Evangelou
Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant ... ~ Alexander Hamilton
Great Ambition quotes by Alexander Hamilton
Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you? ~ William Hundert - The Emperors Club
Great Ambition quotes by William Hundert - The Emperors Club
The great ambition of women is to inspire love. ~ Moliere
Great Ambition quotes by Moliere
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Great Ambition quotes by Thomas Carlyle
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Great Ambition quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now. ~ Mildred H. McAfee
Great Ambition quotes by Mildred H. McAfee
The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation. ~ P.T. Barnum
Great Ambition quotes by P.T. Barnum
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. ~ Luc De Clapiers
Great Ambition quotes by Luc De Clapiers
Anyone with great ambition, great vision, and great passion can be a great person. ~ Debasish Mridha
Great Ambition quotes by Debasish Mridha
A thousand years or more ago,
When I was newly sewn,
There lived four wizards of renown,
Whose name are still well-known:
Bold Gryffindor from wild moor,
Fair Ravlenclaw from glen,
Sweet Hufflepuff from valley broad,
Shrewd Slytherin from fen.
They share a wish, a hope, a dream,
They hatched a daring plan,
To educate young sorcerers,
Thus Hogwarts school began.
Now each of these four founders
Formed their own house, for each
Did value different virtues,
In the ones they had to teach.
By Gryffindor, the bravest were
Prized far beyond the rest;
For Ravenclaw, the cleverest
Would always be the best;
For Hufflepuff, hardworkers were
Most worthy of admission;
And power-hungry Slytherin
Loved those of great ambition.
While still alive they did divide
Their favourates from the throng,
Yet how to pick the worthy ones
When they were dead and gone?
'Twas Gryffindor who found the way,
He whipped me off his head
The founders put some brains in me
So I could choose instead!
Now slip me snug around your ears,
I've never yet been wrong,
I'll have alook inside your mind
And tell where you belong! ~ J.K. Rowling
Great Ambition quotes by J.K. Rowling
Violet pulled a face. "Of course I have great ambition that my children marry well and happily, but I am not the sort who'd marry her daughter off to a seventy-year-old man just because he was a duke!"
"Did the dowager countess do that?" Benedict couldn't recall any seventy-year-old dukes making recent trips to the altar.
"No," Violet admitted, "but she would. Whereas I - "
Benedict bit back a smile as his mother pointed to herself with great flourish.
"I would allow my children to marry paupers if it would bring them happiness."
Benedict raised a brow.
"They would be well-principled and hardworking paupers, of course," Violet explained. "No gamblers need apply."
Benedict didn't want to laugh at his mother, so instead he coughed discreetly into his handkerchief. ~ Julia Quinn
Great Ambition quotes by Julia Quinn
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Great Ambition quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme. ~ Emile Hirsch
Great Ambition quotes by Emile Hirsch
The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build-the thing customers want and will pay for-as quickly as possible. In other words, the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time. ~ Eric Ries
Great Ambition quotes by Eric Ries
Be brave, be great! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Great Ambition quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
I was never a man of great ambition
I cried too easily
I didn't have a head for science
Words often failed me
While others prayed I only moved my lips ~ Nicole Krauss
Great Ambition quotes by Nicole Krauss
By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition. ~ J.K. Rowling
Great Ambition quotes by J.K. Rowling
It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Great Ambition quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity. ~ Norm MacDonald
Great Ambition quotes by Norm MacDonald
Do you know what I have been involuntarily thinking, that in the first period of an artist's life, one unconsciously makes it very hard for oneself – by a feeling of not being able to master the work – by an uncertainty as to whether one will ever master it – by a great ambition to make progress, but a lack of self-confidence – one cannot banish a certain feeling of agitation, and one hurries oneself though one doesn't like to be hurried . . .
This cannot be helped, and it is a time which one must go through, and which in my opinion cannot and should not be otherwise. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Great Ambition quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook. ~ John Burroughs
Great Ambition quotes by John Burroughs
Of course a man has to take advantage of his opportunities, but the opportunities have to come," he told an audience in Cambridge, England, in the spring of 1910. "If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not the great occasion, you don't get the great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in times of peace, no one would know his name now. ~ Candice Millard
Great Ambition quotes by Candice Millard
It's like you might have some great scene that you love but for some reason - and you can't necessarily put your finger on it - the movie's not working or it seems slow or ponderous in some way, and even though it has your favorite scene in there, actually the favorite scene is the culprit. That's the painful thing about editing, is trying to locate those things that are holding the movie back and then having the guts to cut them. And it is painful to do it. ~ Neil Burger
Great Ambition quotes by Neil Burger
Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy. ~ Michael Buble
Great Ambition quotes by Michael Buble
Small animals are a great problem. I wish God had never created small animals, or else that He had made them so they could talk, or else that He'd given them better faces. Space. Take moths. They fly at the lamp and burn themsleves, and then they fly right back again. It can't be instinct, because it isn't the way it works. They just don't understand, so they go right on doing it. Then they lie on their backs and all their legs quiver, and then they're dead. Did you get all that? Does it sound good?"
"Very good," Grandmother said.
Sophia stood up and shouted, "Say this: say I hate everything that dies slow! Say I hate everything that won't let you help! Did you write that? ~ Tove Jansson
Great Ambition quotes by Tove Jansson
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal. ~ Jack Abramoff
Great Ambition quotes by Jack Abramoff
Journalism is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting. I was a judge in some award contest recently, and the stuff that is being done by major newspapers, and local, regional papers around the country, is great. Newspapers play an amazing role in our society, and I still think they are important. I'm sorry newspaper circulation is down. Ultimately, the importance of newspapers can't be replaced. ~ Seymour Hersh
Great Ambition quotes by Seymour Hersh
I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great. ~ Jaye Davidson
Great Ambition quotes by Jaye Davidson
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. ~ Edith Hamilton
Great Ambition quotes by Edith Hamilton
what makes the great motivators so, well, motivating is their ability to help others find their own personal motivation every day. It is that personal motivation that inspires people to have a vision of what they want to achieve, work hard and prepare well so they have not only a clear direction in sight, but also the actual wherewithal to get where they want to go. ~ Jim Taylor
Great Ambition quotes by Jim Taylor
I like looking for myself in the whitest of pages. I like finding evidence of myself there, after being told my footprints did not exist on that sand. I think the work of the great white writers is important, but I think it's most important when it's negotiating me and my people, because I am as arrogant and selfish a reader as any other. ~ Mat Johnson
Great Ambition quotes by Mat Johnson
Sometimes, when things look terrible ... you just need to find the right move to turn the whole game around. When you find it you feel great. ~ Walter Dean Myers
Great Ambition quotes by Walter Dean Myers
There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich. ~ Thomas Sherlock
Great Ambition quotes by Thomas Sherlock
Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of their energy. We have a great time. It's all about the fellowship. ~ Paula Deen
Great Ambition quotes by Paula Deen
Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.' ~ Eli Pariser
Great Ambition quotes by Eli Pariser
What's going on?" I asked when he finished.
"I'll let you know soon. For now, we have to wait."
"Great. My favorite thing to do. ~ Richelle Mead
Great Ambition quotes by Richelle Mead
With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured vividly
through the chronicle of a powerful family's fortunes
one of the great political dramas of our time. ~ Ronald Steel
Great Ambition quotes by Ronald Steel
In fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of contraction emotionally and physically. It seems to give us energy but doesn't really. Like the white sugar of mental health, there's a short high followed by a crash. The cultivation of mental rest or surrender is like eating healthy food. It doesn't give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy. ~ Marianne Williamson
Great Ambition quotes by Marianne Williamson
Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go to great lengths to turn people into icons, nor did he presume to show their "true nature" in something so transient as a photograph. Instead, he used photography's special qualities to suggest intimate things about his subjects, things that cannot be put into words, and may not even be possible to put into pictures. ~ Sebastian Smee
Great Ambition quotes by Sebastian Smee
For reasons that will never be entirely clear, God has a soft spot for religious strangers, both as agents of divine blessing and recipients of divine grace - to the point that God sometimes chooses one of them over people who believe they should by all rights come first. This is a great mystery, but it does nothing to obscure the great commandment. In every circumstance, regardless of the outcome, the main thing Jesus has asked me to do is love God and my neighbor as religiously as I love myself. The minute I have that handled, I will ask for my next assignment. For now, my hands are full. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Great Ambition quotes by Barbara Brown Taylor
I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father's footsteps. ~ John Jay Hooker
Great Ambition quotes by John Jay Hooker
One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad. ~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Great Ambition quotes by Nicholas D. Kristof
Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good. ~ Swami Vivekananda
Great Ambition quotes by Swami Vivekananda
Typically you see the home office think up some great program but doesn't think through implementation at the store level. ~ Thomas G. Stemberg
Great Ambition quotes by Thomas G. Stemberg
I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success. ~ Alex Spanos
Great Ambition quotes by Alex Spanos
Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great Ambition quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them. ~ Thomas Merton
Great Ambition quotes by Thomas Merton
For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackness, is the next unfolding, the great unfurling of wings, the re-forged backbone of a true Child of Light. ~ Jennifer DeLucy
Great Ambition quotes by Jennifer DeLucy
Trustworthiness is a mark of a success-minded person. To be seen as trustworthy is a great compliment. When people trust you, they expect that you will honor their trust. ~ John Patrick Hickey
Great Ambition quotes by John Patrick Hickey
Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us. ~ Helen Keller
Great Ambition quotes by Helen Keller
To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first. ~ Karen Thompson Walker
Great Ambition quotes by Karen Thompson Walker
A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound. ~ Richard Flanagan
Great Ambition quotes by Richard Flanagan
It's great to feel happy. Go, do what makes you feel happy. Do it shabbily and get shallow happiness; Do it hard and feel the hardest happiness! ~ Israelmore Ayivor
Great Ambition quotes by Israelmore Ayivor
And what did the great British historian Edward Gibbon have to say about the human record so far? He said, "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." The same can be said about this morning's issue of The New York Times. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Great Ambition quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild. ~ Dennis Wilson
Great Ambition quotes by Dennis Wilson
Some people are natural beauties, some have great style, but sometimes it comes from talent. Take Kate Winslet: I was listening to her speech at the Golden Globes. That woman has so much intensity. She's amazing to watch and to listen to. With some people, it can even be their voice that makes them attractive. ~ Mary-Kate Olsen
Great Ambition quotes by Mary-Kate Olsen
Comparing ourselves instead of taking lessons from ourselves is not only a catalyst to diminishing our true purpose but also a great ingredient to thinking negative and staying in mediocrity ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Great Ambition quotes by Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Were he, the great Lord Steldor, another man, I might have spent the afternoon smiling. ~ Cayla Kluver
Great Ambition quotes by Cayla Kluver
It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured. ~ Jeremy Irons
Great Ambition quotes by Jeremy Irons
Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the Industrial Revolution and the flowering of modern capitalism. ~ Murray Rothbard
Great Ambition quotes by Murray Rothbard
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort. ~ Calvin Coolidge
Great Ambition quotes by Calvin Coolidge
Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty. ~ Henri La Fontaine
Great Ambition quotes by Henri La Fontaine
The Holy Spirit is a great worker, not a 'trade unionist.' He is a great worker, and He works in us, always. He does this work of explaining the mystery of Jesus, and of giving us this sense of Christ. ~ Pope Francis
Great Ambition quotes by Pope Francis
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