Ambition Quotes · Page 41

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

— Samuel Richardson

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

— Charles Kuralt

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

— Chris Evert

“What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.”

— Sharon Creech

There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.

— Tim Ferriss

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

— Ovid

“Strange ambition. Strange perversion, one might almost say. In”

— Theodore Dreiser

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive…

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

“For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And…

— C.P. Cavafy

I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure…

— Stephanie Gilmore

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

— John Hurt

I guess I don't have the cut-throat ambition that some other actresses have. I don't know how good that is for my…

— Summer Phoenix

The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and…

— Rachel Field

Everybody speaks about City having lots of money, but it is not about that. It is about ambition, and I have spoken…

— Edin Dzeko

But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then…

— Rick Bayan

I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never…

— John Hurt

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people…

— Mitt Romney

“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather…

— Chris Ware

I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make…

— Margaret Thatcher

Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the time to scale back…

— Steve Ballmer

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

— Albert Camus

Life is like riding a bike, to keep balance you must keep moving.

— Jay Saprano

I have ambition and drive, and I'm passionate about the fashion industry.

— Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

“It didn’t take me long to realize that having ambition in life is good, as long as you got your three meals…

— Anonymous

“Love is but a frailty of mind when ‘tis not with ambition joined." -Sir Thomas Seymour”

— Jacqueline Kolosov

Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.

— Sam Altman

I don't know any player with ambition who wants to sit there, week in week out, and not play.

— Darren Bent

“He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne.”

— Jayne Castel

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

— Swami Vivekananda

Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.

— Travis Knight

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“I've got lots of ambitions, but I only ever think of them when I'm lying around in my undies having a snooze.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

My political ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian

— Goodluck Jonathan

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

— Mason Cooley

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

— Christopher Walken