Ambition Quotes

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.

If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have to get an amanuensis who will write for you.

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

Aggressiveness is good in a combat leader. Combining that with ambition and insecurity becomes more problematic.

The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.

I am still full of ambition.

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.

Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

You might be a redneck if your biggest ambition in life is to git that big ole coon. The one what hangs 'round over yonder, back'ah Bubba's barn.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!