Ambition Quotes · Page 35

“Talented people hit targets no one else can hit. Ambitious people aim to hit targets no one else can see.”

— Addoo S. Mukhtar

“Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in…

— Alex Rogers

I went into politics for the reasons most people do: ambition, self-righteousness, and a desire to help others.

— Jon Lovett

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

— Anonymous

The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager.

— Graham Taylor

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

— Rohinton Mistry

“I opened my eyes and couldn't find a single precedent, so I became the precedent.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Ronda Rousey

Don't be intimidated by people who try to belittle your ambitions. Most of the time they are just jealous of your success…

— Robert Cheeke

“A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is…

— Kresley Cole

The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and…

— Martha Graham

“I love your farm, you know I do, but this is your passion. I’m figuring out what mine is. I’m good at…

— Maria Jane

When you come to Paris you are at a club that has the ambition to be the best in the world, you…

— Kylian Mbappe

If you fail in your endeavor, never be disheartened. It's up to you to get back on track. It's your strength which…

— Anil Kumar Sinha

When I left Facebook, I left an enormous amount of equity on the table. I thought, 'I don't want to be a…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

“If you want to live life exactly the way you want to, rather than following convention, then you’ve got to defy convention…

— Neil Walker

I've been playing music for a long time, mostly to empty rooms. That's not me getting the violin out. That's the reality…

— Sam Ryder

... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration…

— Mary Church Terrell

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,…

— Oliver Goldsmith

In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed…

— Niall Ferguson

There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens…

— Wayne Knight

Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I…

— David Bowie

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a…

— John Keats

“The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

“Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.”

— Enid Shomer

“We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the…

— Amah Lambert

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

— Haruki Murakami

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Michael Flatley

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

— Lao Tzu

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

— William Shakespeare

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

— William Shakespeare

Acting is a big ambition, but I still have a professional wrestling world to conquer.

— Luke Harper

“Ambition is a drug that turns it's addicts into potential madmen.”

— Emile Cioran

My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football…

— James Nesbitt

“We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.

— John Kricfalusi

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

— Anthony Trollope

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

— Roman Payne