Ambition Quotes
To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.
Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.
If you try to keep your most sacred ambitions off of your weekly calendar and your most genuine traits off of your resume, then you're missing out on the power of real integrity.
Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.
It's never too late to realize your ambitions. Take the first step by daring to dream big dreams. Then have the confidence to take a few risks and make those dreams a reality. You'll be glad you did.
Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.
If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.
What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?
That has always been my biggest ambition. To bring people together. To achieve a family spirit. Because then, you can actually do anything, because people are open to what they feel is real.
I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country.
To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.
The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.
The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity.
I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.
The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.
A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.
I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.
WE NEED MORE OF THOSE AND IF YOU STILL HATE THE WORD, IT IS NOT THE WORD THAT IS IMPORTANT. IT'S THE IDEA AND THE AMBITION BEHIND IT.
In terms of putting the cast together, no problems. You know, the only problem always is just price-point. Our ambitions as we get older, all of us, is to try and do more.
The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition.
I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.
... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.
Will we ever understand the price of ambition, or ever apply our heart to life with submission?
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.
The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own greatness and ambition.
I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.
... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.