Quotation Explorer - 'Ambitions'

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. - William Congreve
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement. - L. M. Montgomery
Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you. - Roy Bennett
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life. - Joseph Conrad
We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie. - Amah Lambert
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. - Willa Cather
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. - Grigoris Deoudis
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. - Joseph Conrad
Songs have taught me more about life than school ever has and how to follow my ambitions no matter what they are and how to live my life no matter the trade-off. - Meghan Blistinsky
When your life flashes through your eyes make sure there is enough to see, until then work hard on your ambitions and live life to the fullest. - Unarine Ramaru
Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel. - L. Ron Hubbard
Get better acquainted with yourself, and understand the burning ambitions that dwell within. Be brave enough to follow these. They're your dreams. Follow your dreams. They are your purpose - your purpose will fulfil you. Find it, pursue it, stop at nothing. A happier you makes a happier world. - Nicole Bonomi
Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off? - Darnell Lamont Walker
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. - Robert Jackson
Our friendship has survived betrayals and our ambitions. Even death is afraid to come between us. Welcome back to my life." ~ Fidelis O Mkparu, author of 'Love's Affliction' ‪#‎authors‬, ‪#‎friendship‬ - Fidelis O. Mkparu
It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.
Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self- indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts. - Stephen Vizinczey
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain
History is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. - Garth Greenwell
Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been. - David Halberstam
Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up. - Rafi Zabor
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours? - Stephen Davey
With the ambitions, to seize the opportunity to win is your big loss. - Auliq Ice
Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions - rassool jibraeel snyman
Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision. - Nabil N. Jamal
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. - Mark Twain
Hip Hop Generation captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as post-this or post-that. - Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation "
Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you. - Roy Bennett
The only things that all men want is a woman that respects him and challenge his intelligence plus ambitions. - Unarine Ramaru
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments. - Bryant McGill
Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you. - Roy Bennett
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