Ambition Quotes · Page 36

That is my ambition, to have killed more people-more helpless people-than any man or woman who has ever lived.

— Jeffrey Dahmer

There's a lack of ambition in politics in terms of what we expect from the government, what it means to have a…

— Christine and the Queens

A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.

— Mark Shuttleworth

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

— Jodie Foster

Evan Bayh learned early that liberalism and ambition don't always mix in a red state like Indiana.

— Steve Kornacki

“You gave me the drive, ambition, and discipline to pursue wealth and I haven’t even met you yet, stranger.”

— Marion Bekoe

I think everyone who's successful consistently is ambitious.

— James Lassiter

“if you're not part of the problem, you're not ambitious enough”

— Josh Stern

I was going to university to study psychology and my big ambition in life was to open treatment rooms for psychotherapy.

— Holly Willoughby

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in…

— Neil Kinnock

I never thought of breaking a record. The only ambition I had was to become the fastest century maker for India, which…

— Virender Sehwag

“There's nothing wrong with dreaming about accomplishing great things, as long as that desire isn't focused on one's own glory.”

— Chip Ingram

China will have the biggest aging crisis that the world has ever seen over the next generation, and this happens at a…

— Howard W. French

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that…

— Eydie Gorme

On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jenny, all my life I have wanted to do miracles. I have wanted to be holy. I suppose it was ambition or…

— Anonymous

Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who…

— Ivanka Trump

“Strategy cannot be a useful concept if it is a synonym for success. Nor can it be a useful tool if it…

— Richard Rumelt

There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in…

— Michael Leunig

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to…

— Henry David Thoreau

How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have this ambition that when I become powerful and famous, I will host an event of boxing or kick-boxing, which the…

— Ritika Singh

We need an effective American diplomacy that will marshall the resources of nations in the Asian Pacific Rim to put pressure on…

— Mike Pence

“Famine is good to the corn-merchant, evil to the poor, and indifferent to those whose fortunes can at all times command a…

— Christopher Hitchens

“is mathematically compounded of ambition, distraction, uglification and derision,”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

— Emile Hirsch

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

— Anonymous

Bullies will attack your confidence, but you cannot let them kill your ambition.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

Of course I have ambition to become World Champions with Oranje.

— Louis van Gaal

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

— George Carlin

My greatest ambition is to wake up every morning and not crave a full English breakfast.

— Omid Djalili

“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.”

— Anonymous

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

— Willa Cather

I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

— Fergie

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

— Mark Kingwell

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

— Thomas Keller

Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.

— Cory Booker

I was going to be the president of a television network. That's where I was going. I was that ambitious.

— Laurie David

It has never been my ambition to become the glam doll in a film.

— Richa Chadha