Best ambition & poor Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.”

Ifs Men World Poor Rich Blessing Ambition Mark Aim Lazy Laziness No Friends Bereft Lazy Man

Author:James Ellis

“The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than simply to pocket six million quid for having been a failure and run for the hills. They want beautiful, flowing football and tangible success, at St James' Park. Fine. I, meanwhile, want Jessica Alba and the Nobel prize for literature. I make my prospects slightly more realistic.”

“When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.”

Men Should Made Stuff Poor Ambition Ambitious Cried Countrymen Julius Ambitious Man Brutus

Author:William Shakespeare

“Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense: Then perseverance, never to decline The chase of riches till the prey is thine; And firmness never to be drawn away By any passion from that noble prey-- By love, ambition, study, travel, fame, Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.”

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

“I don't want to be poor. I don't want to be rich to the extent that all I care about is keeping my job. I don't care enough about keeping my job right now. That's good. That makes effective at what I do. I don't want to be frightened of getting fired. So to that end I suppose my ambitions are that I spend less than I earn.”

Want Ends Enough Care Jobs Poor Rich Right Now Ambition Don't Care I Don't Care Frightened I Care My Ambition Getting Fired

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.”

Inspirational Enough Funny Poor Ambition Excuse Lazy Laziness My Ambition Funny Work Being Lazy Funny Procrastination Early Bird

Author:Milan Kundera

“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.”

Ifs World Poor Enemy Rich Land Ambition Remains Greed Hunger Driven Naked Desert Empires Construction Pretense Slaughter Hail Stripping

Author:Tacitus

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition”

Ifs Doe Political Order Politics Poor Poverty Streets Ambition Making Money Despise Lacking Simplify Inner Life Ending Poverty

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.”

Poor Known Ambition

Book:An Ideal Husband

Source: An Ideal Husband

“Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.”

“Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.”

Earth House Water Poor Sun Saws Rocks Fronts Ambition Spring Rain Rivers Roots Died Bones Invisible Dirty Grass Yellow Abandoned Revealing Patches Lawns Straws Knuckles Lavender

Book:Toujours Provence

Source: Toujours Provence

“Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!”

Whole Passion Poor Ambition Infinite Astronomy Destructive Comparison Globes Conquest My Ambition

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.”

Enough Poor Ambition Bird Excuse Lazy Procrastination Cheese Mice Worms Early Bird

Author:Edgar Bergen

“People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.”

People Thinking Has Beens Body Age Able Fighting Poor Produce Poet Amount Depression Ambition Moved Incredibles Sensitive Thirty Plath

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“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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