Ambition Quotes · Page 61

People laugh at you when they are looking down on you,work hard cus they dont when they look up to you.

— Isaac Buabeng

I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

— Anonymous

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...

— Theodore Roosevelt

“To afford food is employment, to afford principles is success.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

— Anonymous

Perhaps the most distant part of the sky always seems clearest, so that we will always strive to reach it.

— Himura Kenshin

To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

— Juvenal

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

— Taiye Selasi

We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what…

— Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

I've been lucky in my life to have a couple of really amazing connections with people. For me, it's more about someone…

— Jack Draper

“Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them.”

— Jim Butcher

“He realized all at once that ambition and love might not make good bedfellows, that a choice between them might be necessary.”

— Samuel Shellabarger

Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have…

— Malaika Arora Khan

“You don't need to be good at everything, you just need to be absolutely, unequivocally, insurmountably good at one thing. Once you…

— Abhijit Naskar

...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always…

— Isaac Asimov

My parents were both born in 1930. They grew up during the Depression. They wanted their children to have secure lives, to…

— Diana Gabaldon

I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules…

— Tony Kushner

“Surround Yourself with Positive People Who Believe in Your Dreams Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and…

— Roy T. Bennett

I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of…

— Stephen Spender

Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies…

— Mark Steyn

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom…

— Walter Raleigh

My ambition with 'Redoubtable' was to make a film that would be aesthetically pleasing, charming, and touching.

— Michel Hazanavicius

Every match is just as important, whether it be a final or a league game, and the ambition is always to win.

— Wendie Renard

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

— Brendon Burchard

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

— Seneca the Younger

Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.

— Pierre Omidyar

The moment you are ready to take a chance, ready to fail you are already on your path to shine..

— Anonymous

Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.

— Wolfgang Ketterle

Wanting to play the guitar was neither a wild dream nor a realistic ambition. It was simply inevitable.

— Julian Bream

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

— Alexander Pope

Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.

— Cory Booker

I want to be famous. That's my ambition, and there is nothing wrong with it.

— Kriti Kharbanda

To achieve greatness you only need 2 things: your mind and a dream.

— Alyssa Tillmon

Passion equals drive, drive equals determination, and enough determination equals success.

— Anette Sandberg

My purpose had accidents-My motivation has delays-My mistakes were misguided-My ambition still remains

— C-DASH

I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.

— N. C. Wyeth