The worst possible scenario would be to lower the ambition and try to do something on the cheap side. If you don't have an appropriate result now, we'll have to wait another 20 years to have real reform in agriculture.
Ambition Quotes (418 Quotes)
This city will be wide open for young people with a pioneering spirit and ambition. This city is going to boom. It is a golden opportunity for the young person.
There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.
One of the reasons I wrote this book, ... was to illustrate the impact that the death of this one guy had in the community. When Wells died, it set off a spiral of ambition. It ultimately lead to Katzenberg being let go as head of the studio after a 10-year run -- he was pushing for Wells' job.
The Hollywood featured in 'Going Hollywood' is a place few have seen, and is a refreshing take on what we all believe constitutes 'celebrity,' ... Beyond the glamorous premieres and jet-set travel is a world where grit, ambition and, above all, hard work, are the stuff that dreams are made of.
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
For those with ambition, reality is more of a creation than an unalterable certainty.
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
Edward and Henry, now the boast of fame,
And virtuous Alfred, a more sacred name,
After a life of gen'rous toils endur'd,
The Gaul subdu'd, or property secur'd,
Ambition humbled, mighty cities storm'd,
Or laws establish'd, and the world reform'd;
Clos'd their long glories with a sigh, to find
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
My ambition is to be happy.
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper.
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else... some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.
Awake my St John Leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze but not without a.
With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.
Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
There's a little bit of chutzpah in there, and a whole lot of ambition.
Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil. It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.
As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
My great ambition is to have people comment on my fine dramatic performances.
Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.
It has always been our plan to be capital generative beyond the development needs of the business, and today represents an important milestone in that ambition.
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
I've never had an ambition to make that a part of my professional or personal life - I've done an awful lot of it, mainly in the States.
My greatest ambition may sound rather like something from a greeting card, but it is a genuine desire to serve a local community and be a local MP.
My ambition is peace and perfection.
It is the result of ambition and arrogance of the political machine DeLay helped to build.
O fading honours of the dead O high ambition, lowly laid.
Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true but when we undertake to cover our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw themselves the Spirit of the Lord is grieved.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
I think the level of ambition of this piece is something that attracted all of us,
We have to defend our values of respect of tolerance of freedom and democracy against any who wish to destroy or replace them with some other doctrine, particularly if they seek to use violence to promote their ambition.
In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
I have seen the women in Somalia receive those water bottles where the alternative for them is to walk for two miles to get polluted water and even run the risk of being raped. These are the realities that we have to bring into the halls of the United Nations. So we may ask for a higher degree of ambition in the document. The realities are there, and I think we will have to deal with those realities.
When Northwest merged with Flowing Wells, they promised an economy of scale that would lead to bigger and better service. But the first thing they did was raise taxes. They are a political organization with a lot of ambition. They want to get bigger.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.