Ambition Quotes

I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

Ambition is no cure for love!

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.

My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

Every flower blooms at a different pace.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.

All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.

I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

When someone comes to you with big dreams, don't be too quick to belittle their ambition and dreams. Inspire and help them in any way you can. Even the beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar.

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

A lot of people have the ambition, but they never ask themselves, Do I really believe I can do this?

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition.

I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it would be.

You cannot teach ambition.

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.

Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.

I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.

And remember, the people that you've seen here tonight are professionals, so please don't try any of this at home, because you are ugly and hung like a hampster.

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

Dont just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions.

As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.