Petty Ambitions Quotes & Sayings

There were days I would have traded a year of my life to touch you again. — Kristen Proby

Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you. — Brandi L. Bates

Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence. — Karen Marie Moning

My friends joke I'm a 90-year-old stuck in a young man's body. — Douglas Booth

It's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she uses the term "guru" to minimize my career, to marginalize my thoughts and to trivialize my work, as well as those of others. — Marianne Williamson

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! — Arthur Conan Doyle

I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone. — Natasha Bedingfield

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh. — Jane Birkin

I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing. — Isabel Gillies

If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner strength, your positive actions will gain in profundity and scope. — Dalai Lama

That's how the world is, and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about it. — Paul Hoffman

He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. He hated them all the more for having made him feel so small, so petty and mean, which was all he felt just then. But it wasn't enough to stop him. — Riccardo Bruni

The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into. — Dada Vaswani

There's some kind of peace that comes with knowing that for every person who is waiting to be found, there's someone out there searching. — Julie Murphy

I think the key is to realize that life is temporary and spending life questioning life is a waste of time. — Fred Durst

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character. — Morihei Ueshiba