Ambition Quotes · Page 49

“What if my ambition is to sweep hair... wash dishes... and be left the hell alone.”

— Luke Cage

We can tend to be too ambitious when we're young, and a little blind.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

— Glenn Howerton

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

— Jean Monnet

Your dreams matter. But you have to open your eyes to see that it can come true even through the tough times.

— NoJay Moon

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

— Anonymous

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I'm used to realising all my dreams and targets through my determination and ambition.

— Essam El Hadary

Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made…

— William Ernest Henley

Here is the Divine Dichotomy... The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'. Just be where you choose to get!' It's…

— Neale Donald Walsch

To the truly driven (which one has to be to survive in the high stakes, competitive world of show business), lack of…

— K Callan

“Yes. Have…have you ever been shot?” “Yep, more than once. But I was never shot by the same guy twice. If you…

— Michael Deeze

Don't follow the pleasurable life of someone without purpose and has nothing to lose; else you will live your life like a…

— POB Bismark

“Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point…

— Donald Miller

Work hard, take it seriously, embrace your ambition. And when you're not doing that, do something - whatever it happens to be…

— Ryan Holiday

Do not expect people to understand your grind when God did not bless them with your vision. Tell the naysayers to take…

— Tsepiso Makhubedu

It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of…

— Ellen Key

Mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be,…

— Rajneesh

I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When…

— Roman Polanski

... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I…

— Therese Anne Fowler

I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself,…

— Anonymous

The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less,…

— Marianne Williamson

“You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear…

— Alfred Bester

In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the…

— Murasaki Shikibu

I want to show that you dont have to be older to live your dreams, you can do it at any age.

— Zendaya Coleman

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

— James F. Cooper

With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

— John Milton

“Getting drunk with success and sick with ambition only leads to one route; destruction!”

— Olawale Daniel

“Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep…

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

— Ayn Rand

“Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you asleep are nightmares.”

— Amit Kalantri

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

— Michael Schumacher

“For girls, becoming women was inevitability; for boys, becoming men was ambition”

— Kamila Shamsie

It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.

— Mark Victor Hansen

Having positivity in attitude makes you determined to pursue your dream with confidence.

— Dr Anil Kr Sinha

They gon love me for my Ambition. Easy to dream a dream, but much harder to live it.

— Wale

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

— Michel Onfray

I want to play football out on the pitch. I am not different to anyone else and the ambition never changes.

— Gary Cahill

Went looking for love. found cupid dead. with a note that said. live life instead.

— Kenneth Therro