Unambitious People Quotes

#1. Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before.

Jerome K. Jerome

#2. To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.

Rex Stout

#3. Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

Minna Antrim

#4. I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

John McGahern

#5. Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.

Elizabeth Taylor

#6. The rock still has something to teach me.

Chris Sharma

#7. She tried to smile but her face,she noticed with a jolt,was one that had been configured for tradgedy.

Beatrice Colin

#8. Cecily: "Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare"
Algernon: "They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in."
Cecily: "Oh, I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

Oscar Wilde

#9. The Eye will take care of her.

Rick Yancey

#10. But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

Timothy Ferriss

#11. We begin by beginning, I guess.

Ray Bradbury

#12. Just do as much as you can.

Nas

#13. The only people who experience no resistance are the unambitious and the dead. If you feel no resistance in your life, you need greater goals or you need to check your pulse. Life and movement come with resistance. Don't be discouraged by it, be strengthened by it.

Steve Maraboli

#14. My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.

Bert Blyleven