“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.” MenWayHumansPoliticalHateAbilitySituationCareersStreetsCircumstancesSpeechAmbitionIntellectualEnvyConfusedOrganizedDesperateBitternessOrientationBurstingAcclaimTavernsFlotsam Author:Albert Einstein
“It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?” IfsShouldLongPlaySeemsWould BeChoicesPassionCircumstancesAmbitionArgumentFavorsIdleEmployedBoundlessRailAmused Book:Essays on Men and Manners Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.” ThinkingMenSeaCircumstancesAmbitionPassingPassingsWeatherCarrieGlobesBeatenVesselShipwreck Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book
“A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.” MadeCountryProductsCircumstancesAmbitionBuiltFamiliarMigration Author:Paul Keating
“Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!” WarBigsSpiritQualityVirtuePrideTrumpCircumstancesAmbitionEarsGloriousRoyalFarewellStirringTranquilBannerPiercings Author:William Shakespeare
“Unlike Marxists, conservatives they don't want to control anything. We believe in individualism, self-reliance, rugged individualism, and we trust people that in free markets and free circumstances they will do the best to improve themselves and their families. We want as few controls on them as possible. We love everybody, and we want the best for everybody, and we believe people should be free to use whatever talent and ambition and desire they have to achieve whatever they want.” PeopleBelieveDesireAchieveTalentCircumstancesAmbitionIndividualismFree MarketMarxist Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books of poems, even single poems, which are, for me, at least the equivalent of a short story or a novel. Martin Amis, in an interview with Saul Bellow in the early eighties, quotes Bellow asking, "Why not address 'the mysterious circumstance of being', say what it's like to be alive at this time, on this planet?" This has been and still is my ambition.” BookRealitySpeakNovelCircumstancesAmbitionComplicatedMysteriousProseShort StoryAlways BelieveMy Ambition Author:Lawrence Joseph
“Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.” ThinkingWayGreaterCircumstancesAmbitionPaceWay Of Thinking Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.” ShouldVoiceSituationCircumstancesAmbitionStriveInner VoiceSituations In Life Author:Lloyd Blankfein