quotes on ambition

I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume. ~John Van Druten I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. ~Margi Clark



Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ~Isadora Duncan



My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. "Everything was fine until you moved out there." "That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood. The Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe. ~Coley Sohn



Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. ~Saint Augustine Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993



If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. ~Ted Turner



Public opinion... requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits. ~Walter Bagehot, Biographical Studies, 1907



When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~George Canning



A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? ~Stanislaw J. Lec



Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. ~Pearl S. Buck



Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651



First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. ~Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald



We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce



The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart



Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift? ~Cicero



I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four. ~Fred Allen



Las Vegas - my favorite desert mirage. ~Val Saintsbury



The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. ~Andrew Ross