Ambition Quotes

If I wish to be well in my mind, then I must write, and there is no cure for my ambition, and thank the Lord for that.

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.

I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.

Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.

There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.

Stop wishing & start doing! Your lack of effort won't affect a true hustlers ambition. Perseverance through adversity is key.

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I'd like to know.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

I don't want to go to Portsmouth or any other club that has no ambitions.

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve .

There's a starting place. And that starting place for everyone is ambition. We're all scared of that word today because they made it bad in the late '80s. As if desire is not a good thing.

Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.

I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.

You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.

Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.

I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

Once you've been number one, you can never be satisfied with less.

Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.

Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together.

We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .

I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

Nobody sits alone accompanied only by a stewing ambition that won't see fruit for years. Ambition is something you turn into publicity before there's anything to publicize.