Ambition Quotes

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

[I like in Kanye West] confidence in him, but also his aggressiveness, ambition and charisma.

The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character.

To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world.

Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

My political ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.

If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.

Your Heart's Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.

But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition to achieve that goal!

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.