Quotes About Hopes And Ambitions

#1. It's exactly the thing that I'm reduced to doing for myself. It seems to rescue a little, you see, from the wreck of hopes and ambitions, the refuse-heap of disappointments and failures, my one presentable little scrap of an identity.

Henry James

#2. Toxic people are like Cancer. If you keep them in your life, they will destroy your dreams, hopes and ambitions.

Dee Dee M. Scott

#3. I knew too well the nature of life's distractions and enticements-how the piecemeal progress of our hopes and ambitions commands our undivided attention, reshaping the ethereal into the tangible, and commitments into compromises.

Amor Towles

#4. In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#5. I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.

Duncan Armstrong

#6. But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

James Weldon Johnson

#7. He felt that if you didn't have hopes and ambitions when you were a teenager, you'd be pretty much fucked later on. About

Stephen King

#8. Mme. de Gallardon, who could never stop herself from sacrificing her greatest social ambitions and highest hopes of someday dazzling the world to the immediate, obscure, and private pleasure of saying something disagreeable.

Marcel Proust

#9. Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.

Richard Dawkins

#10. I dream a dream that won't let me sleep. and yet I can't let it go either. Hope & fears are playing a tug-of-war, and I'm the rope in between.

Jyoti Arora

#11. There aren't terrible ideas. Just ideas done terribly.

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.

Joyce Rachelle

#13. His life had gone by without adventures, without passions, almost without hopes. The facility of dreaming, planted in every man, had never blossomed in the narrow bed of his ambitions.

Guy De Maupassant

#14. In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.

Frederick Lenz

#15. A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.

David Duchovny

#16. As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness
the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

Arthur Nersesian

#17. Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#18. As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.

Macklemore

#19. Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.

Thomas S. Monson

#20. Sometimes, it's worth living the dreams, tasks, hopes or ambitions of the people you love, however unjustifiable or stupid they may sound. Sometimes, it's worth completing what they stood up for. That is the best gift you can give to the people you love.

Sapan Saxena

#21. Penny for your thoughts,' asked Gwen.
'Cheapskate,' said Ianto. 'Never heard of inflation? Thoughts are a bit pricier than that these days.'
'OK,' said Gwen. 'A pint down the local tomorrow for your thoughts.'
Ianto smiled. 'That's more like it.

David Llewellyn

#22. A man once believed he could fly - and he did.
Another believed he could walk on the moon - and he did.
Why not believe your wildest dreams can come true?
Why not see the stars as reachable?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#23. The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.

Norm MacDonald

#24. The economy is in tatters; your job is in trouble - if you still have a job. And you know what? I've been saying it for years.

Robert Kiyosaki

#25. Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.

Peter Senge

#26. There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.

Barbara Mertz

#27. It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.

Sigfried Giedion

#28. I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.

Richard Marx

#29. Don't let reality, get in way of your dreams.

Anthony Liccione

#30. This is how it has always been with me. Give me something good, I'll destroy it. Love me, I'll destroy you. I have never felt deserving of anything in my life.

James Frey

#31. Jesus, all for Jesus, all I am and have and ever hope to be. All of my ambitions, hopes and plans, I surrender these into Your hands ... For it's only in Your will that I am free.

Robin Mark

#32. In 2008, when the global financial crisis struck, it was a bad year for a lot of developing countries, and it manifested itself in consumer confidence.

Adi Godrej

#33. Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.

Daisaku Ikeda

#34. Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.

Alain De Botton

#35. Hip Hop Generation "captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as "post-this" or "post-that."

Jeff Chain

#36. Roses are red, violets are blue,
This room's a psycho shopping zoo.
The fashion's a disaster, the mirrors are large,
And somebody left a crazy lady with needles in charge.

Debora Geary