Ambition Quotes

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned ...

I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the...

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been ...

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and la...

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I exp...

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. Tha...

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life....

...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring...

Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years...

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to b...

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we liv...

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the cal...

The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like th...

Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like bein...

Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if yo...

Miss Tick sniffed. 'You could say this advice is priceless,' she said. 'Are you listening?''Yes,' sa...

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great ...

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I don't care much whether I ever get to know anything - but I want to work out something in figures ...

The best is the enemy of good.

Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter ...

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people ...

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, an...

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanesce...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a tim...

I’d be glad to go out on a limb with thoseWho want nothing beyond what the wind bestows,Were I not b...

You don’t come to live here [New York City] unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own ...

You don’t come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a ...

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether pec...

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith--contentment with a lowly place...

Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations...

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless ...

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, h...

Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescri...

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a sk...

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. Bu...

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or u...

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or u...

...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labou...

. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

Trapnel wanted, among other things, to be a writer, a dandy, a lover, a comrade, an eccentric, a sag...

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent caus...

From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the d...

You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know t...

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear n...

I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, t...

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates....

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we...

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of ...

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above t...

Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M...

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambit...

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our might...

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude ...

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct...

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Ne...

And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It ...

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated asso...

We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time...

Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of...

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housew...

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, ha...

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, ha...

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was ...

To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetr...

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...

There was this tendency to drift. And yet  when she thought about it, what did she really want to do...

Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her ...

Live for each second without hesitation

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving ...

Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.

This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which...