Ambition Quotes
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Ambition Quotes & Sayings
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The results are in great need greater ambition.
— Heraclitus
You will get what you wish for.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everyone has to start somewhere. If you let people bring you down now, you'll never know how high you could climb. And you owe it to yourself to try.
— Michelle Madow
The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.
— Nicole Krauss
I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
— Patsy Cline
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.
— Habeeb Akande
Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
— Anthony De Mello
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
— Tracey Ullman
My political ambitionis not worth the blood of any Nigerian — Goodluck Jonathan
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
— John Keats
She didn't know if this excitement was fueled by her ambition to find out something that nobody else knew. Or by the anticipation of finding out.
— Antonia Michaelis
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Education is a lifetime knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I know what I want. I will pursue it with all heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Boredom is actually a sign of ambition. So act on it.
— Gregor Collins
Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Relax and be free. You don't have to prove anything.
— Marty Rubin
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
— Daley Thompson
For what is more lovable than failure?
— Mervyn Peake
both were writers of high ambition, with
— Gyles Brandreth
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.
— Robert A. Heinlein
If you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.
— Patricia Wentworth
Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.
— P.D. James
It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.
— Raymond Loewy
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
— Juliette Binoche
My one ambition is to play a hero.
— Sessue Hayakawa
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
— Richard Steele
Dream. Desire. Dare.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.
— Cornelia Parker
Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
I have a lot of ambition.
— Katy Perry
I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.
— Ian McKellen
It was an undemanding job both physically and mentally, which was fine. Stress was for the rich and hard-working.
— Joe Cawley
Given courage and ability and a favorable set of circumstances, there is no greater way to [acquire] influence than to be free of personal ambition.
— Lorena A. Hickok
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
— Benjamin Franklin
Ambition never comes to an end.
— Kenneth Kaunda
You can have ambitionBut not too much
You should aim to be successful
But not too successful
Otherwise you will threaten the man — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it.
— Henri Michaux
My ambition is to unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.
— Wolfgang Ketterle
The nature of ambition is that it requires casualties.
— Michael Dobbs
Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.
— Tucker Carlson
You will see true character after a defeated ambition
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
— Fernando Torres
I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.
— William Shakespeare
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
— John Adams
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds.
— Salvador Dali
I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.
— Dave Matthes
Always stay one step a head, unless you're already there
— Benny Bellamacina
I always sang and I always wrote ... it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.
— Mariah Carey
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
— Abraham Lincoln
Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
— Anatoli Boukreev
Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
— Ryan Holiday
He who burns with ambition to become aedile, tribune, praetor, consul, dictator, cries out that he loves his country and he loves only himself.
— John Ralston Saul
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine
— Elvis Presley
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
— Napoleon Hill
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
— Joseph Joubert
The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.
— Vikas Swarup
It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business
— David Ogilvy
I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
— Vagit Alekperov
Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.
— Nora Roberts
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
— Elbert Hubbard
My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.
— Mike Krzyzewski
As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.
— James Hilton
The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination.
— Dorothy Dunnett
You are capable of anything. Dream great dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil in vain...
— Assegid Habtewold
Don't allow ambition to rob you of destiny.
— Vonae Deyshawn
