Quotes about Ambitions

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

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.

Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations.

All life was transmitted into terms of their love, all experience, all desires, all ambitions, were nullified - their senses of humour crawled into corners to sleep;

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

Power," he wrote, "always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws. Our passions, ambitions, avarice, love and resentment, etc., possess so much metaphysical subtlety and so much overpowering eloquence that they insinuate themselves into the understanding and the conscience and convert both to their party.

We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.

Do we have dreams, or do dreams have us?

I don't know what my ambitions are until they turn up really but I'd love to work with Shane Meadows, I know that much!

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.