Top 1200 Ambition Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.
To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.
A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.
I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.
What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.
When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.
It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.
Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.
I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.
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.
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
After studying theatre from National School of Drama, theatre became a passion, an ambition.
The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.
Team is all about vision, goal and ambition... It's about wanting to be the best you can be as a group.
TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
My ambition is that I have the best players
who can collaborate with each other to form
the best team in the world.
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
There's always a winning ambition in me, which keeps me going.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.
The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.
I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!
Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
I am trying to write a play that is big and I feel represents me - that's my big ambition.
I know my ambition and my passion and to know how I want to grow up with Arsenal.
Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.
I've never been someone who loves a car and when I was young I didn't have the ambition of a car or something like that.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
My ambition is to win the Champions League one day with Tottenham, or the Premier League.
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.
It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.
To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.
In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the ambition on track.
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.
There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.
Bullies will attack your confidence, but you cannot let them kill your ambition.
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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
Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.
I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.
When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
For centuries our wealth has come from our ambition, entrepreneurial skills and global reach.
One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.
There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind.
I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.
When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.
