Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Key

Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions.

Richard Lamm

I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination.

Frank Lampard

There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it.

Virginia Postrel

The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.

Jeffrey Kluger

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.

Alan Cohen

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

John Nersesian

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

Chris Adrian

I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time.

Rafe Spall

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

David Morse

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

Denis Waitley

You can only do good if you feel good.

Dick Cavett

The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.

Ben Bradlee

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

Aimee Bender

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

Dave Chappelle

I have angst in my life, but I'm like anybody. We all have angst in our lives that we pick up and fidget with and then we put down and look at some other things that make us feel good or enjoy our lives.

Johnny Depp

I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience.

Laura Dern

That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love

Larry Fitzgerald

I'm honest with myself how I feel. If I feel good, I feel good. If I don't - if I'm tight - I don't just try to muscle through everything, because you've got to be a little bit smarter.

Martin Luther

The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation

Helen Gurley Brown

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.

Herbert Spencer

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

John Ruskin

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

Kendrick Lamar

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

Karl Barth

If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity

Lisa Kleypas

Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.

Studs Terkel

I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.

Harry Browne

Security ... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.