Ambition Quotes · Page 58

“Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.”

— John Lanchester

No one is born great, Great people develop themselves by aiming for the best and working hard for it.

— Anonymous

The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions

— Michael Atherton

My only ambition was to get to 50, and not regret not having had a crack at being a comic.

— Lee Mack

“I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

It was always my ambition to be on the cover of a free gay magazine.

— Pete Doherty

Let's just say that I feel I have the ambition and determination to succeed as a coach.

— Gennaro Gattuso

Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and…

— George Sand

I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission…

— Narendra Modi

I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want…

— Kate Moss

I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I mean, I was ambitious about quality, but…

— Justin Theroux

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting…

— Pindar

“If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy…

— Amit Kalantri

An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as…

— Ira Glass

“I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of…

— Ruskin Bond

I didn't have a burning ambition. I mean, I remember a teacher asking us, 'What do you want to do?' and I…

— Jason Watkins

Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to…

— Olive Schreiner

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would…

— Allen Tate

“Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is,…

— Wallace Stegner

Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to…

— Garry Wills

“A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I…

— William Boyd

One of the things that we have to change in this country is the idea that people can't disagree without challenging each…

— Barack Obama

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do it wake up.

— Anonymous

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

— Anonymous

“Nighttime is flight time - master the night, you'll master the calendar.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Bullies will attack your confidence, but you cannot let them kill your ambition.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

Of course I have ambition to become World Champions with Oranje.

— Louis van Gaal

I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.

— George Carlin

“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.”

— Anonymous

My greatest ambition is to wake up every morning and not crave a full English breakfast.

— Omid Djalili

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

— Willa Cather

I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

— Fergie

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

— Mark Kingwell

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

— Thomas Keller

Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.

— Cory Booker

I was going to be the president of a television network. That's where I was going. I was that ambitious.

— Laurie David

It has never been my ambition to become the glam doll in a film.

— Richa Chadha

My ambitions are just to keep working hard and, when I do get on, to make an impression.

— Jack Rodwell