Ambition Quotes · Page 39

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

— Lasse Hallstrom

Perseverance is the key to quenching the thirst of your ambition

— Idil Ismail

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

— Joseph Joubert

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

— James Wolcott

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

— Anonymous

Team is all about vision, goal and ambition... It's about wanting to be the best you can be as a group.

— Mickey Arthur

“If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.”

— Suzy Kassem

“Vimes had never mastered ambition. It was something that happened to other people.”

— Terry Pratchett

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies…

— William Jennings Bryan

“Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit a kingdom for it was to small…

— William Shakespeare

Starting point for any achievement is desire, Desire propels innovation. Innovation ignites passion & passion fuels to make your dream a reality.

— Anil Sinha

I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically,…

— Chris Hadfield

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of…

— E. O. Wilson

“Of knowing that there is a larger energy and force that can crush our ambitions and plans in the blink of an…

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers. .. Pursue this life of love with focus…

— John Legend

“A woman with strong character can be easily labelled as a bossy *itch while her male counterpart is a firm leader, only…

— Sally El-Akkad

America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“A world that confuses luxury with success, has absolutely zero understanding of the human condition. That's why they idolize rich and filthy…

— Abhijit Naskar

I was watching the Five Nations as a kid, I'm very fortunate to have been able to pull the red jersey on…

— Alun Wyn Jones

But there is no substance under the things I have gathered together about me. I am hollow, and my structure of pleasures…

— Thomas Merton

You have to continue to learn. That's how you develop. So the people who show that curiosity, that ambition, that willingness to…

— Roger Goodell

There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel…

— Madame de Stael

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible…

— Nadine Gordimer

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like…

— Amos Oz

I feel that my drive and ambition is more American, while the passionate, laid-back side of me is all Brazilian.

— Morena Baccarin

An educated man without ambition is as badly off as an ambitious man without education.

— Vikrant Parsai

...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...

— Alexander Hamilton

Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.

— Joe Rogan

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

— Jean-Francois Cope

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

— Raymond Loewy

No matter how weak we think we are, we all have the power to turn dreams into reality.

— Ash Sweeney

Don't use the same pattern in life, choose differently cause it may be one you won't regret

— Savannah

To accomplish all the dreams that you dream, remember where it is that you really want to go.

— Senora Roy

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

— Ringo Starr

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

— Jessye Norman

Chase down your victory like it's the last bus of the night.

— Anonymous

You can achieve success if you want it bad enough, aim for the stars but try to touch the moon.

— Rashida Rowe

The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.

— Baltasar Gracian

It has always been my ambition to be captain of Wales over a sustained period of time.

— Gareth Thomas

Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power…

— Janet Morris