Ambition Quotes - Page 19

• The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

  Alva Myrdal

  Heart, Men, Way

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Children, Museums

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• My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise; and yet, when I sometimes open a little box in which I still keep my fast yellowing manuscripts, the only tangible remnants of a vanished dream, a dead ambition, a sacrificed talent, I cannot repress the thought, that after all I have chosen the lesser part, that I have sold my birthright for a mess of pottage

  James Weldon Johnson

  Dream, Children, Tangible

  James Weldon Johnson (2009). “James Weldon Johnson: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.199, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Voice, Joy, Musical

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.334, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

  Walter Scott

  Serious Business, Toys, Hours

  Walter Scott (1845). “Ivanhoe: A Romance”, p.376

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• I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Lakes, Islands

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Office, Lust

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• Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will; over which swept all the storms of fate, ambition and revenge; upon which fell the gloom and darkness of despair and death and all the sunlight of content and love, and within which was the inverted sky lit with the eternal stars -- an intellectual ocean -- toward which all rivers ran, and from which now the isles and continents of thought receive their dew and rain.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Revenge, Rain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.616, Library of Alexandria

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• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

  E. F. Schumacher

  Economic, Masters, Servant

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.

  Geoff Dyer

  Irritation, Levels

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• Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.

  Jean Monnet

  Business, Ambitious

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• Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop or delay him. A man accepted the dangers, the element of chance. If he didn't, he won nothing.

  John Jakes

  Men, Risk, Delay

  John Jakes (2012). “Homeland”, p.253, Open Road Media

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• He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

  Benjamin Harvey Hill

  Christian, Hate, Men

  Benjamin Harvey Hill (1891). “Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings”

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• Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

  Elihu Root

  Perfection, Selfishness, Prejudice

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

  Richard Rorty

  Belief, Transcendence, Motive

  Richard Rorty (1991). “Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Way

  Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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• Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Vices, Virtue

  'The Bashful Lover' (licensed 1636, published 1655) act 1, sc. 2

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• Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the time to scale back the scope of our ambition or the scale of our investment. While our opportunities are greater than ever, we also face new competitors, faster-moving markets and new customer demands.

  Steve Ballmer

  Moving, Believe, Opportunity

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• Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

  Mark Steyn

  Agency, Hands, Order

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• There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Hero, Excellence, Roles

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• In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Men, Feminism, Way

  Twitter post from Nov 2, 2016

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• It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  Team, Gps, Choices

  "Kimi Raikkonen: The iceman cometh again, this time with Lotus Renault GP". Lotus Renault GP Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2011.

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• When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate our actions (even if they're taking place within the profane arena of commerce) beyond ego and above gimme-gimme ambition.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Practice, Ego

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• How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Healing, Voice, Giving

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• The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Independent, Pressure Groups

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.585, Lulu Press, Inc

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