Ambitions Quotes

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

Lao Tzu
- Desire
- Ambitions
- Governs
A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

Fisher Ames

For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.

Adolf Hitler
- Means
- Tragic
- Ambitions
By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.

Evan Osnos
It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

Honore de Balzac
- Hope
- Poems
- Ambitions
When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"

Neil Peart Rush
- Battle
- Bands
- Culmination
Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

Satya Nadella
- Culture
- Ambitions
It's funny how getting older - or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades - can make you change your ambitions.

Reg E. Cathey
- Funny
- Change
- Decades