Best ambition & ability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.”

Source: The Correspondence of Washington Allston

“The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.”

Helping Ability Fate Ambition Luck Fingers Great Things Fickle

Author:Fergus Henderson

“In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential...Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.”

I Can Soul My Own Ability Seeing Mines Ambition Willingness Vaults

Author:Renee Fleming

“I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.”

Ifs Thinking World Believe Littles Enough Happens I Believe Bits Ability Imagine Ambition Little Bit Brave Dirty Believe In Yourself Ambitious Dirty Words

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.”

Ability Honest Ambition Musical Honest Living

Author:Varg Vikernes

“I would like the ambition to go directly into songwriting; individual songs. I want to see what I can do to push myself sonically with songwriting. I'm excited to have no parameters. When the idea shows up and I execute it to the best of my abilities and then I'm done.”

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Author:Radical Face

“Many European parties, including the conventional parties in France, no longer have the ability to keep people together. And in terms of the coalition government, I am convinced that Angela Merkel has the necessary will and ambition. I want to be very cautious with my statements about her coalition negotiations, but support for Europe is part of the DNA of both the Greens and the Free Democratic Party. I was very pleased that the heads of both parties spoke out positively about the European project.”

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Author:Emmanuel Macron

“We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.”

Individual Wealth Ability Greater Security Ambition Prosperity Appetite Great Power

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.”

Enough My Own Ability Ambition Someday Truest

Book:Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

Source: Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

“If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.”

“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.”

“Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.”

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Book:A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston

Source: A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston

“The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability”

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Author:William Feather

“Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him.”

Men Ability Liberty Products Demand Achievement Ambition Capitalism Trade Rewards Every Man Likes Rationality

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.”

Men Able Lasts Found Natural Ability Degrees Ambition Accomplish Analysis Equipment Small Parts Solemnity

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.”

Use Girl My Own Ability Boys Ambition Decided Library Productive Founding Boy And Girl Public Library

Book:Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography

Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography

“A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.”

Writing Desire Literature Ability Common Creative Students Ambition Conception Meaningless Diverse Creative Writing Workshops Writing Workshop

Author:Rachel Cusk

“Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.”

Running Ability Limits Ambition Draws Overcoming Traits Stamina

Author:Wolfgang Ketterle

“More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.”

Humans Ability Common Limits Behavior Ambition Rational Contribution Substitutes Lowest Human Behavior Common Denominator Rational Thought Lowest Common Denominator

Author:Hyman Rickover

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