Quotes About Ambitions

There's all that we are and all that we wish to be.

But wishes don't have expiration dates.

Swallowing back her bitterness, Amelia glanced up at her brother and managed a rueful smile. "Thank you, but at this advanced stage of life, I have no ambitions to marry." Leo surprised her by bending to brush a light kiss on her forehead. His voice was soft and kind. "Be that as it may, I think someday you'll meet a man worth giving up your independence for." He grinned before adding, "Despite your encroaching old age.

It seemed altogether right to him that they would drive through the small village of Paradise. It would be hard to find someone less demanding of life than Brown Dog and his current position was beyond his most strenuous ambitions.

She drove down from North Carolina to see me, and reminded me of scriptural lessons that tragedies and disappointments should be a source of increased patience, strength, wisdom, and a commitment to our Christian life. I rejected her premises at first, but Ruth finally convinced me to relegate my political and business ambitions to a secondary position of importance for a while and to assume some challenging religious commitments.

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts.

It is no good for rulers if the people they rule cherish ambitions for themselves or form strong bonds of friendship with one another.

Humble goals and modest expectations are more likely to be fulfilled than are utopian dreams.

In this crazy future tumbling like an avalanche straight at us, the ambitions of two people didn't amount to a hill of beans.

Of course I have aspirations and ambitions to play for my country.

I have no Hollywood aspirations.

I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.

When I was 14, I started playing for Taye Academy in the city of Owerri, and then my whole life became football. I dreamed of playing for certain clubs, or going places I'd never been before, but I just kept my ambitions to myself because I never really expected that I could get to these places.

I don't want anyone to feel they can't achieve their ambitions if they are dyslexic.

Goals are essentially private things.

We're left without a chance, ignorant and remorseful among the ruins of our ambitions.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

Every villain in the DC Universe wants something different, and not all of them want to rule the world. Or at least, not all of them want to rule the world in the way the Crime Syndicate do.

We did more to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions with a computer virus than we ever could have with bombs (and we did still more with diplomacy - the abandonment of which is also bad for our military, because militaries can only stop a problem, not fix a problem).

That's what happens to dreams," Charlotte said. "Life gets in the way.

We know, we feel in our guts, that decisions are constantly being made which are going to wreck our ambitions, our dreams, our personal relationships. But the people making those decisions are keeping them secret, because if they don't they'll lose the leverage they have over their subordinates.

So help me God it gets more and more preposterous, it corresponds less and less to what I remember and what I expect as if the force of live were centrifugal and threw one further and further away from one's purest memories and ambitions...