Ambition Quotes

It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.

My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.

I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Ambition has no rest.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.

You are not in business to be popular.

Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

A man can't just sit around.

I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories, that is my main ambition. And to be working with amazing creators.

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.

It has always been my dream and ambition to introduce Irish dancing to the world.

For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.

It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.

Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.

I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.

I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite