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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life.
I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.
Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition as Manchester City.
My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.
I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.
The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
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.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.
Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.
I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.
For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
I just think the time and where I was brought up had a great deal to do in giving me the ambition to kind of get out and do something and not go into the steel mill.
I think we need more ambition about using our data to make our lives better.
I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. Ive hired many people at very strange places.
Valuing time with your family does not mean you've lost your ambition. Define success for yourself.
The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.
No one would call me a great cook, but over years of cooking, for me, confidence has replaced ambition.
You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die.
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.
Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.
I think sometimes drive and ambition of individuals should not be confused as arrogance, and sometimes Cristiano gets that tag on him.
My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.
One must have ambition and one must understand the minds ... of men.
America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.
What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
My ambition is to figure out how to help people create their own health and how to turn that into a profitable business.
I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.
I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.
I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
Every child thrives on encouragement, but beware of forcing it. I've seen too many family relationships crumble because of excessive ambition on the course or the range.
The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.
I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.
