Ambition Quotes

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

Ambition aspires to descend

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing, great things are possible to you.

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

My ambition is peace and perfection.

The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.

Aim High, Drive hard.

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?

I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of course, never achieve this, but I always act as if I can.

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

I never had any boyhood ambitions.

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone out there, especially everyone who dares to dream.

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy.

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.