Ambition Quotes
We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.
It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.
Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others.
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?
To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.
Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.
Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.
He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.
If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.
A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.
A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.
Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!
Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
My ambition is to one day shed my wardrobe and figure out how to look like Gilles Bensimon - or a famous stylist - who travels with a Birkin bag and minimal accoutrement and somehow looks cool.
It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.
My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.
To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness
My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.
I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear.
My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.
I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.
I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.
I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel.