Ambition Quotes

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes.

My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

I like to build things, I like to do things. I am having a lot of fun .

...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair.

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.

Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years.

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.

Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.

I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or to fulfil some non-existent imperial ambitions.

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Never allow anyone to take YOUR spirit away from you.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.

You have this ambition to make something perfect, exactly right. Of course, necessarily, it fails in some way and you have to accept that for what it is, and then you're on to the next thing.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.