Ambition Quotes · Page 47

“Ambition interests me because it’s such a surefire indicator of damage.”

— Peter Morgan

“No experience is wasted. It is the stepping stones for a great success.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Determination determines where you will get through. Be too determined to be defeated.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

— Michael Strahan

Jean Tigana wants to go to the top with Fulham, and I like that ambition.

— Edwin van der Sar

To lead your country is the crowning ambition for any coach.

— Roberto Mancini

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

— Warren G. Harding

The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise.

— Nicky Romero

[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and…

— Maxine Cheshire

When you follow a dream, be sure what you've chosen will be worth the pain and struggle you'll have to endure to…

— Anonymous

“Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you're best isn't good enough, you're not trying hard enough and if you want to believe how far you're ambition will…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Britain rightly sees herself as a global good citizen, but she must reconcile ambition with power, ends with means - shedding utopian…

— Dominic Raab

When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura…

— Sonia Levitin

“We forbid growth and therefore decay. Ambition, and therefore despair. Because each is only the warped relection of the other.”

— Catherine Fisher

To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent…

— Josephine Hart

No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and…

— Louise Imogen Guiney

I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way…

— Vivienne Westwood

I don't believe you are simply born with the ambition of becoming chancellor. But if you want to make a difference, if…

— Angela Merkel

“Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a…

— Greg Brown

It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive…

— Andrew Carnegie

It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking…

— Rajneesh

Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.

— Peter Ackroyd

“Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I think sometimes we in the industry have to do ambitious projects.

— Harvey Weinstein

For Euro 2016, we must remain humble, but we have the ambition to go as far as possible.

— Didier Deschamps

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

— Edmund White

“I should not act better than anybody, but sure as hell, NOBODY’S better than ME!”

— Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

— Henry David Thoreau

Success comes to man who does today what others were thinking of doing tomorrow.

— Anonymous

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

— Michel de Montaigne

It's important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition.

— Kamala Harris

Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.

— Simon Le Bon

I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.

— Lydia Polgreen

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

— Thomas Carlyle

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

— Ginni Rometty

If you're not an ambitious footballer, you're in the wrong game, really.

— Harry Maguire

Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

— George W. Bush