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.

Ranbir Kapoor

I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.

Djimon Hounsou

We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.

Douglas Conant

All of us introverts aspire to be more outgoing, but it's not in our nature. When I was nearly 50, I discovered that the best thing to do was to tell everyone I worked with that I'm just shy. People are not mind readers - you need to let them know.

Anthony Bourdain

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

Lyor Cohen

Everything gets thrown off depending on whether the Packers are playing. I grew up in L.A., and we had a terrible quarterback, Roman Gabriel. When I was 11 years old, I fired him, I fired the Rams, and I picked a quarterback I aspired to be. That was Bart Starr. That's how long I've been a Packers fan.

Najib Razak

As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.

Michael Craig

To me they are all good guys. I don't look at them as role models because I aspire to be one of them, and I will soon.

Philip Hammond

Historically, Heathrow has been something of a joke, outweighed by its excellent connections. We have to aspire to having an airport at Heathrow with two runways which is a world-class airport. It's a big challenge.

Yotam Ottolenghi

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

William Shatner

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

Will Chase

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

Evel Knievel

There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

Evangeline Lilly

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

Emma Watson

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Edward James Olmos

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.

Vonda Shepard

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

Susan Sontag

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Kathleen Edwards

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

Alan Cohen

The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.

Alan Cohen

True champions are team players.

Alan Cohen

We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.