Ambition Quotes · Page 40

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

— Philip Sidney

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

— James K. Polk

I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

— Roxane Gay

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

— Ambrose Bierce

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

— Philip Massinger

In order to make your dreams a reality, you must first be willing to take yourself and your dreams seriously.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

— John Constable

Say what you really mean when your ambition calls you. For what use is there in praying If you will only hear…

— As I Lay Dying

The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures…

— Barbara Kruger

Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance…

— Dhirubhai Ambani

I find myself really privileged to be able to go in and look at a set that the likes of Hollywood can…

— Brendan Gleeson

“And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon…

— Joseph Conrad

We often hear of important gatherings of the great and the good. Sadly the great have not often been good. But the…

— Grant Fairley

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose…

— Barack Obama

The one-child policy was based on some faulty science and had, as an ambition, reining in Chinese population growth, so as to…

— Howard W. French

I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be…

— Janeane Garofalo

“The more you think of what is right, the more you tend to make every action in your mind right. The more…

— Christian D. Larson

We've seen their kind before. The terrorists are the heirs to fascism. They have the same wield of power, the same disdain…

— George W. Bush

Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare…

— Rajneesh

“I grew up with an ambition and determination without which I would have been a good deal happier. I thought a lot…

— Earl Denman

“The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddling our way toward frugality, simplicity,…

— Edward Abbey

Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism,…

— Russell Kirk

All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary…

— William Law

If you sit back and wait for someone else to be ready, you will spend half your life doing nothing.

— Anonymous

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

— Hillary Clinton

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

— Adrian Grenier

The price of greatness is high, but that of smallness is even higher. Dare to dream big and work hard at it.

— Anonymous

Arsenal is a team who challenge for the top and definitely match my ambitions and personal motivation.

— Petr Cech

I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world.

— Azim Premji

Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

— Suzanne Curchod

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

— Tim Burton

Life throws us curve-balls all the time. We just need to practice hitting them.

— Matthew Van Zyl

Really wanted to be a cage fighter. . . but the hamster kept kicking the shit out of me

— Sarah Moores

Look to the present, lock your eyes on the prize but don't throw away the key.

— Anastasia Blanchard

You can stand there thinking, 'if only,' or you can go and take charge and change it.

— Anonymous

“Follow your star, it's never too late, even if it doesn't quite happen as you expect.”

— Jemima Pett

“In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".

— Barack Obama

There are two types of people in this world; those who see things happen and those who make things happen.

— Alex Mwila