Quotes About Dangerous Ambition

#1. Museums matter only to the extent that they are perceived to provide communities they serve with something of value beyond their mere existence." - STEPHEN WEIL

G. Wayne Clough

#2. Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

Dean Koontz

#3. In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

Mitt Romney

#4. In a technological world facing many global problems, everyone needs to have a basic understanding of science. And knowing where we came from and helps us to make decisions about the future.

Wyken Seagrave

#5. There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

Michael Moorcock

#6. I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.

Charles Bukowski

#7. Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.

Lesley Choyce

#8. The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace

James Madison

#9. The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty ... a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.

Alexander Hamilton

#10. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

Albert Einstein

#11. There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

Ken Follett

#12. Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?

Eric Maisel

#13. Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

Jeremy Clarkson

#14. The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.

Marc Fitten

#15. I think 'All Out of Love' is my favorite song because it's been the most successful. It's been in about 30 movies, it's been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it's always somewhere.

Graham Russell

#16. When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch them selves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction.

Francis Quarles

#17. To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country.

Hasan M. Elahi

#18. Morely: You're trying to make me [i]Amelie[/i]
Oliver: Goodness, no. You'd look terrible in a skirt

Rachel Caine