Ambition Quotes
Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.
The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.
Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.
Valuing time with your family does not mean you've lost your ambition. Define success for yourself.
I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.
We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.
Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.
Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.
The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality call to him, "what you seek is ahead of you.
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. Ive hired many people at very strange places.
I used to be very ambitious. But reality taught me that ambition won't get you everything you want. You need more than just passion and hope. It's important to do what I'm good at and suits me.
The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.
To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
Take ones adversity Learn from their misfortune Learn from their pain Believe in something Believe in yourself Turn adversity into ambition Now blossom into wealth
