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Quotes About Ambitions

Ambiciones irritantemente desproporcionadas, proyectos nobles, ideales resplandecientes se convierten en catástrofe: el socialismo mesiánico engendra el gulag.
~ George Steiner
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
~ George W. Bush
Hay varias cosas que sin duda no haré. Es muy improbable que un día vaya a la Luna, que viaje en submarino o que aprenda chino, saxófono o ergódica, aunque tenga muchas ganas. Tampoco es muy probable que un día me vuelva oficial en actividad, estibador en Valparaíso, apoderado de un gran banco, cajero, explotador agrícola o presidente de la república.
~ Georges Perec
Obviously, everyone's journey is different, and we all have different ambitions and beliefs as kids as to whether we're actually going to be able to play in a World Cup and whether it can be a dream that can come true. For me and for my family, it's very surreal.
~ Millie Bright
There are so many projects on my Dream List. I have so many things in the works, just like little ideas or collections of things or things I write or even just a title of something.
~ Lake Bell
Every team has to understand what their ambitions are. If their ambitions are to fight for the title or win the Champions League, you must buy expensive players. Otherwise, you continue to stay in your level. It's simple.
~ Antonio Conte
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
~ Vernon Howard
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
What were her biggest fears and concerns? What goals were most important to her? What trade-offs was she willing to make, and what ones was she not? Not
~ Atul Gawande
What were her biggest fears and concerns? What goals were most important to her? What trade-offs was she willing to make, and what ones was she not?
~ Atul Gawande
there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.
~ Stephen Hawking
The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.
~ Stephen King
What in your life needs to be consigned to the bin? Just make sure it's not your dreams!
~ Tony Curl
Life has a time limit. And we are changing all the time. So are our ambitions, desires, and purposes . . . The important thing is to find something that never changes in you.
~ Fumio Obata, Just So Happens
When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart.
~ Ian Curtis
Much of the environmental movement is a Trojan Horse for socialist assumptions and ambitions (the British like to call environmentalists "watermelons"—green on the outside, red on the inside).
~ Jonah Goldberg
A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives...
~ Jonathan Kozol
A dream does not die on it's own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.The motive may be different, and I'm sure it often is; the consequence is not.
~ Jonathan Kozol
Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.
~ Jose Saramago
You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.
~ Peter MacKay
Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.
~ Brad Hall
I just listened to regular commercial music from Korea. I would just follow the choreographed dance routines. I didn't have any ambitions of pursuing rapping. I liked dancing, so I did that.
~ G-Dragon
Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term global ambitions. This is a metaphor for our times: America's most dynamic company cannot take on the Chinese government - even on an issue like free and open information - and win.
~ Martin Jacques