Ambition Quotes · Page 56

Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?

— Mary Oliver

I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

— Harry Styles

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Over the long term, it is definitely my ambition to play in the midfield.

— Emre Can

“It is better to be a Number Two in a working system, than be a Number One yet lack capacity to make…

— Dele Ayo Bankole

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

— Alexandra Roach

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. Ive hired many people at very strange places.

— Tony Fernandes

The more you focus on the results, the slower the process. The more you focus on the process, the faster the results.

— Alexander Den Heijer

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

— Georges Bizet

“the road to success is littered with mistakes, it matters more to build trust and encourage ambition than to reward obedience. At”

— Margaret Heffernan

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Dedicate yourself. Anything you truly want must be worth fighting for.

— Anonymous

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions…

— Zach Wamp

Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and…

— Bennett Miller

If you have an ambition, don't be shy! Remove the barriers, take down the walls, break with the routine that's forcing you…

— Alina Khadgi

When people look at me they see an ordinary boy with dirty rags, when I look into the mirror I see a…

— Usman Ismaheel

We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence…

— Wei Jingsheng

What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination…

— Lewis H. Lapham

I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I do believe that India needs a lot more foreign direct investment than we've got, and we should have the ambition to…

— Manmohan Singh

“A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon —a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is.…

— Bette Midler

When I applied to Stanford, I applied for graduate work in the PhD program, not to the creative writing program, mostly because…

— Robert Hass

There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing…

— Frank Lampard

I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

— John Milton

Many people wants to be the president...they have ambition. Just ambition is not enough.

— Vitali Klitschko

Pursue your dreams as if success is inevitable. Prepare for the pursuit of your dreams as if failure is guaranteed.

— Tsepiso Makhubedu

The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.

— Urbain Dubois

I am not an ambitious person and I love to go with the flow.

— Biju Menon

Look for a lady who has her mind set and plans made. There is nothing sexier than a woman with ambition.

— Raghib Clitso

A dancer dances.A writer writes. A singer sings. What do you do? Know thyself.

— Tassel Daley

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

— Nicole Krauss

“When ambition exceeds ability, you are going to experience hardship. We have the choice to fear it or embrace it.”

— Kevin Jorgenson

Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.

— Brendon Burchard

If you don't have that ambition you start to be sloppy and that is not what I like to be.

— Ronald Koeman

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be…

— Joaquin Sorolla

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

— Thomas Merton

If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

— Rich Mullins

If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work.

— Heber J. Grant

You don't have to move to go far. Keep your dream close and you'll go as far as the stars.

— Joseph Farmer