Ambition Quotes · Page 37

It was always my ambition to be on the cover of a free gay magazine.

— Pete Doherty

Let's just say that I feel I have the ambition and determination to succeed as a coach.

— Gennaro Gattuso

Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do it wake up.

— Anonymous

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

— Anonymous

“Nighttime is flight time - master the night, you'll master the calendar.”

— Abhijit Naskar

As a kid, I wanted to be an actress, but ambition and reality are two different things.

— Tamannaah

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

— Gerald R. Ford

In the midst of all our emotional upheaval caused by ambition, aggression, rejection, transition, addiction, limitation and competition, the one thing that…

— Sherlyn Chopra

I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I…

— David Nevins

To be the best in your field is a great ambition, and requires discipline and a huge amount of effort. The athletes…

— Giorgio Armani

Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead…

— Ben Horowitz

“Professional ambition is expected of men but is optional—or worse, sometimes even a negative—for women. “She is very ambitious” is not a…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

— Riccardo Muti

“Every success I have ever had or will have in the future comes not solely from my own ambition and hard work,…

— T.S. Tate

I am honoured to be appointed as the first chief executive of UKRI. My ambition is to make UKRI the world's leading…

— Mark Walport

I don't think we should just 'muddle through' and ignore the question of life's meaning. Or better, perhaps, I don't think it…

— David E. Cooper

What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be…

— Gloria Steinem

“One cultivates one's life, one's friends, one's means, one's hopes. One goes from place to place, from triumph to triumph, in search…

— Jesse Ball

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions…

— Leo Tolstoy

As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing…

— Michael Gurian

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be…

— Nick Clegg

“Sometimes in church circles, we talk more about contentment (which is a good thing) but it can minimize the importance of ambition—that…

— Carolyn McCulley

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote…

— Michael Wolff

Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent.

— Rajneesh

No one is born great, Great people develop themselves by aiming for the best and working hard for it.

— Anonymous

“Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.”

— John Lanchester

The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions

— Michael Atherton

My only ambition was to get to 50, and not regret not having had a crack at being a comic.

— Lee Mack

“I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I try to always give my all, and I have the ambition to improve every day.

— Lucas Vazquez

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

— Geoffrey Boycott

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

— Placido Domingo

My first ambition was musical theatre, but I realised quite early on that I wouldn't make the grade.

— Caroline Flack

It was never my ambition to watch myself in magnified close-ups on screen.

— Saira Banu

I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.

— Ronaldo

I've always been an ambitious girl and I make no qualms in admitting that.

— Nidhhi Agerwal

Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.

— Anonymous

Acting was in my mind since I was 10 years old. It's just that for a long time it was a hidden ambition.

— Arjun Mathur

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

— E. F. Schumacher