Ambition Quotes · Page 65

An ambitious person is one with a mental condition which compels him to work himself to death in order to live.

— Vikrant Parsai

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

— Juan Manuel Fangio

Of course I have aspirations and ambitions to play for my country.

— Ashley Young

“Sometimes the beginning doesn't look like it, but in the end, consistency and determination paints a better picture.”

— Julius Omoyele

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

— Vernon Howard

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

— Luc de Clapiers

I think everyone who's successful consistently is ambitious.

— James Lassiter

“if you're not part of the problem, you're not ambitious enough”

— Josh Stern

We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say…

— William Friedkin

“When you celebrate the peak but forget to climb, Ambition quietly expires before its time. Glory grows stale when effort retires— Dreams…

— Srinivas Mishra

“An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has…

— Brian Tracy

Stop wishing & start doing! Your lack of effort won't affect a true hustlers ambition. Perseverance through adversity is key.

— Behdad Sami

Maybe I'm competitive. I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, "Someone unwrap it! Here it…

— Katy Perry

I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone…

— Jorja Fox

Had I not been Roddy Llewellyn, I don't suppose anyone would have bothered to take an interest in my ambition to make…

— Roddy Llewellyn

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Too many people want the fruit of Paul's ministry without paying the price that Paul paid. He died. He died to everything.…

— Floyd McClung

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

“Lucinda might sneak from her own house at midnight to place a wager somewhere else, but she dared not touch the pack…

— Peter Carey

“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean…

— Charles Bukowski

I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could…

— Alexander Hamilton

Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“is mathematically compounded of ambition, distraction, uglification and derision,”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

— Emile Hirsch

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

— Anonymous

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.

— John Kricfalusi

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

— Anthony Trollope

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

— Roman Payne

That is my ambition, to have killed more people-more helpless people-than any man or woman who has ever lived.

— Jeffrey Dahmer

There's a lack of ambition in politics in terms of what we expect from the government, what it means to have a…

— Christine and the Queens

A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.

— Mark Shuttleworth

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

— Jodie Foster

Evan Bayh learned early that liberalism and ambition don't always mix in a red state like Indiana.

— Steve Kornacki

“You gave me the drive, ambition, and discipline to pursue wealth and I haven’t even met you yet, stranger.”

— Marion Bekoe

“We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the…

— Amah Lambert

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

— Haruki Murakami