Ambition By Mark Twain Quotes & Sayings

We love Formula One and think Formula One's great. But we think Formula E is different. We would be making a big mistake if we tried to compete with Formula One and be similar to Formula One, we have to be radically different to Formula One to have a chance of survival. I don't mean survival by beating Formula One but co-existing complimentary to Formula One. — Richard Branson

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women. — Mark Twain

Satan laughed his unkind laugh to a finish; then he said: It is a remarkable progress. In five or six thousand years five or six high civilizations have risen, flourished, commanded the wonder of the world, then faded out and disappeared; and not one of them except the latest ever invented any sweeping and adequate way to kill people. They all did their best
to kill being the chiefest ambition of the human race and the earliest incident in its history
but only the Christian civilization has scored a triumph to be proud of. Two or three centuries from now it will be recognized that all the competent killers are Christians; then the pagan world will go to school to the Christian
not to acquire his religion, but his guns. The Turk and the Chinaman will buy those to kill missionaries and converts with. — Mark Twain

We're only as good as our word. — Sunanda J. Chatterjee

Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God. — Swami Vivekananda

At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a faithful record of his performances in a book; and he dashes at this work with an enthusiasm that imposes on him the notion that keeping a journal is the veriest pastime in the world, and the pleasantest. But, if he only lives twenty-one days, he will find out that only those rare natures that are made up of pluck, endurance, devotion to duty for duty's sake, and invincible determination, may hope to venture upon so tremendous an enterprise as the keeping of a journal and not sustain a shameful defeat. — Mark Twain

Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue. — Donna Shalala

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on. — Robert Capa

It was the most earnest ambition I ever had ... Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job. — Mark Twain

Rules for Living by Olivia Joules

14) Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.

and then the new one from Elsie, added at the bottom:

15) Don't regret anything. Remember there wasn't anything else that could have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past. — Helen Fielding

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever. — Mark Twain

Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great! — Mark Twain

I have never tried, in even one single little instance, to help cultivate the cultivated classes. I was not equipped for it either by native gifts or training. And I never had any ambition in that direction, but always hunted for bigger game
the masses. - Mark Twain, a Biography — Mark Twain

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected. — Vladimir Putin

"If we are truly the Lord's, we all walk with a limp" ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

*Note: 'Jacobs Ladder'. — R. Alan Woods

I am certain that our Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart will increasingly be an international meeting place open to scientists of all countries. — Klaus Von Klitzing

Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost ... What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. — Rainer Maria Rilke

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers. — Dennis Quaid

The days with the baby felt long but there was nothing expansive about them. Caring for her required me to repeat a series of tasks that had the peculiar quality of seeming both urgent and tedious. They cut the day up into little scraps. — Jenny Offill