Quotes about "Success & Achievement"

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ”

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. ”

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. ”

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ”

Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ”

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ”

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ”

As a director, I'm not the one animating every frame, every shot. I'm moving around like a surgeon on rounds, or a farmer checking in on all the plants being grown, pruning and adjusting. For me, it's a very exciting job. ”

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making. ”

I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995. ”