Best ambition & lows Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.”

Firsts Enough Home Jobs Hours Loses Teach Security Lessons Ambition Lows Resources Prejudice Priorities Golden Neighbour Golden Hour

Author:Paddy Ashdown

“Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.”

Source: Greek and Roman Lives

“Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.”

Hard Grows Greater Ambition Lows Fellows Strive

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

“Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.”

Thinking Opinion Humility Pride Ambition Lows Envy Worldly Attainment Emulation

Author:Joseph Hall

“The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.”

Way Want America Culture Class Doors Middle Missing Anxiety Ambition Lows Theater Entertainment Middle Class Ritual Capture Contests Polished Vulgarity Respectability Miss America High Class

Author:Gerald Early

“There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.”

World Persons Desire Ambition Capable Lows

Book:Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

“If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.”

People Ifs Honor Ambition Lows Conscience Sake Rejects Thirst Disdain Renown

Book:Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays

Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays

“They build too low who build beneath the skies.”

Sky Ambition Lows

Author:Edward Young

“The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life in the land of Faulkner and Grisham. These are good ol' boys gone bad with flair, private jets, and lots of cash to carry. Curtis Wilkie, a child of the South and a reporter's reporter, is the perfect match for this wild ride.”

Children Fall House Perfect Boys Gone Land Ambition Lows South Greed Corruption Cash Reporters Cunning Jet Zeus Saga Flair Private Jet Perfect Match Wild Ride

Author:Tom Brokaw

“When you don't have crazy ambitions, you're always happy just kind of getting by. Our expectations were always kept low. And so I feel like we appreciate it all the more to have all this good fortune come our way, which we hadn't really been planning.”

Way Feels Kind Crazy Ambition Lows Expectations Appreciate Fortune Planning Good Fortune Always Happy

Author:Ty Burrell

“I'd like them [people] to leave thinking about the challenges women face in the workforce, but more importantly to really feel the emotional highs and lows of those challenges - to have really experienced that unsettling place where ambition crosses over into something else entirely.”

People Thinking Feels Faces Challenges Emotional Ambition Lows Crosses Workforce Highs And Lows

Author:Meera Menon

“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.”

Lines Crime Ambition Lows Aim Sublime My Ambition Great Ambition

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying, 'What's next? What's next? What's next?' I like the equanimity that comes with my age. I don't have big highs, and I don't have big lows. Even if this job goes away tomorrow, the nonstop ambition is a thing of the past for me. I've mellowed”

Ifs Years Bigs Age Jobs Past Moving Order Next Tomorrow Ambition Lows Aging Busy Equanimity Whipping

Author:Jane Lynch

“I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.'”

Ifs Said Lying Language Poor Race Written Conditions Color Ambition Lows Rose Satisfied Epitaph Eminence Downtrodden

Book:The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868

Source: The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868

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