Ambition Quotes · Page 42

Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

— Walter Keane

The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive.

— Scott Belsky

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people, Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions

— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

It was very hard training just once a week when my ultimate ambition was to play professionally.

— Stuart Dallas

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

— Fergus Henderson

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

— Michael J. Fox

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

— Martin Luther

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with…

— Jon Landau

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Three things that is hard to find in a relationship now days. Intelligence, ambition, a sense of humor someone to laugh with,…

— Anonymous

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will…

— Miguel de Cervantes

It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that…

— Damien Chazelle

Our journey to success is not always trying to reach the star that shines the brightest, it is learning along the way…

— Mark Raymond Abad

“I am sick of the quarrels of nations and kings, and I would not give a ha'pence for any empire other than…

— Naomi Novik

I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I…

— Faith Ringgold

If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors…

— Bella Pollen

In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't…

— Peter York

I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that…

— Dwight L. Moody

The amount of guilt you deal with as a parent is pretty profound. It's a constant balancing act. I'm an ambitious person,…

— Jim Gaffigan

“However, because ambition is easily disguised in Christian circles and couched in spiritual language (the need to fulfill the Great Commission and…

— Gary L. McIntosh

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs…

— David Hume

The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business…

— Vivek Wadhwa

The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

— Alan Hansen

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

— LeRoy Neiman

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

— Woodrow Wilson

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first.”

— Jon Osborne

“There is, in fact, a primary driving force behind women's reluctance to see their ambition as a virtue.”

— Debra Condren

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

— Vita Sackville-West

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

— Jenny Offill

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

— Audrey Hepburn

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the…

— Melissa Leo

I sort of gave up my ambition to be handsome... I was excited about people thinking I was an idiot.

— Michael Cera

A nation may rise and fall a man may die but an idea lives on

— Hussein Nishah

Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.

— Bruce Sterling

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

— Angela Merkel

“Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.”

— John Connolly