Ambition Quotes · Page 67

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

— William Hazlitt

“When you finally live out your biggest dream, the next step must always be "dream bigger.”

— A.J. Mendez Brooks

Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.

— Daniel Mainwaring

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.

— Stefan Zweig

I think that "ambition" is a weird and often negatively used word.

— Tania James

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

“Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. —Journal of Thomas Merton”

— Gretchen Rubin

Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .

— Vladimir Putin

I have no interest in feeling like a trophy. Money itself has never been attractive to me; instead, I prefer ambition and…

— Erin Foster

Personal ambition is 'I want to be CEO.' Greater vision ambition is, 'I want to lead this company so that people want…

— Srikumar Rao

My only ambition was to have a restaurant and bring real Italian food to this country. Television was never even part of…

— Gino D'Acampo

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your…

— Garth Greenwell

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch…

— Pamela Anderson

Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like making the puzzle or…

— Ariel Levy

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;…

— William Shakespeare

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live…

— Anonymous

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

I've traveled the world, and I've seen how people marvel at the United States of America, at our democracy, at our ambition…

— Tom Malinowski

People of the United States have to really consider whether they want to be an empire. Sweden is not worried about terrorism.…

— Howard Zinn

“Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he…

— Paul Sabatier

When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and…

— Nina Jacobson

Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We…

— William J. Clinton

If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of…

— Lincoln Kirstein

The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and…

— Thomas S. Monson

Sometimes in order to achieve your dreams you forget to enjoy the journey of life.

— Sushan Sharma

“Success is 0% manifesting, 1% accident, and 99% perseverance.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

— C. J. Mahaney

If you want to reach 100% of your goals, you have to put 200% of your effort into them.

— London Mond

One must have ambition and one must understand the minds ... of men.

— Dhirubhai Ambani

“A dream is not what you see when you sleep. It is what keeps you from falling asleep.”

— Abdul kalam

To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.

— John Hodgman

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind

— Joseph Conrad

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

— Rachel Field

There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

— Joseph O'Connor

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes

— Chinese Proverbs

Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.

— William Congreve

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

— Herman Melville

I would like to play for a club who I feel have true ambition.

— Carlos Tevez

Do not only dream for success, keep yourself going and stay awake to achieve it.

— Dr Anil Kr Sinha

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

— Bryant H. McGill