Watson's motto at the first CTR conventions Your company is your friend. That is my hope and aim and ambition.
Watson's motto at the first CTR conventions Your company is your friend. That is my hope and aim and ambition.
This is no time for 'take it or leave it' attitudes or proposals, but the moment to combine flexibility with ambition, and political courage and resolve, so that we can make progress.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
I'm fighting some incredible ambition, but I need to be smart. If I had until February to make this decision, then it would be a no-brainer. I'd know exactly where I stood at that point. But right now, this is the best decision.
Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a lifelong process and the higher the values, the harder the struggle he needs a moment, an hour or some period of time in which he can experience the sense of his completed task, the sense of living in a universe where his values have been successfully achieved. It is like a moment of rest, a moment to gain fuel to move farther.
A driving ambition is of little use if you're on the wrong road.
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Time is the only critic without ambition.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff - Julius Caesar.
These office-seekers are a curse to the country no sooner was my election certain, than I became the prey of hundreds of hungry persistent applicants for office, whose highest ambition is to feed at the Government's crib.
My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.
My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Our ambition is to be worldwide leaders in survey technology, and I believe we will be there in three years.
Ambition begat simony simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.
We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, or the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side.
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
This decision is vital to the ongoing development of our football club and our ambition is to have a capacity of 40,600.
There is always danger in circumstances of abundance. The inferior man pushes forward through excessive ambition, thereby losing touch with men of talent and virtue in positions below him.
Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
Our ambition is to come up with a better taxation system than that of the outgoing government.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
The ambition is not simply to do some tokenism. This is to create real, sustainable jobs and businesses targeted principally at the communities around De Beers operations.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
We will not lower the level of ambition of the round. If necessary we may lower the level of expectation for Hong Kong,
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.
My one ambition is to play a hero.
He had his pick of schools. But his ambition is to become a top entrepreneur and businessman, and that's why he chose Bentley.
It is hard to see where progress can be achieved in Hong Kong if the talks continue in this direction. The level of ambition, if anything, is going backwards.
All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
Ambition and suspicion always go together.
Dead Lucre: burnt Ambition: Wine is best.
Accurst ambition, How dearly I have bought you.
We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Such joy ambition finds.
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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