Ambition Quotes · Page 71

Dont just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions.

— Roger Milla

“Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.”

— Habeeb Akande

If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.

— Jahangir Khan

The evolving soul is not made divine by what it does, but by what it strives to do.

— Anonymous

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

— John Adams

Peerlessness is a very treacherous ambition; so mind where and who you tread on.

— Evans Ubom

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Never allow anyone to take YOUR spirit away from you.

— Khloe Kardashian

“They are what human beings turn into when they trade life for existence and ambition for security.”

— Raymond Chandler

We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have…

— Julia Cameron

Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests…

— David Cameron

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be…

— Giorgio Armani

If you try to keep your most sacred ambitions off of your weekly calendar and your most genuine traits off of your…

— Danielle LaPorte

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

— Carmen Kass

As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the…

— Edward Weston

I always said it was a privilege to end up on the television. It wasn't my ambition; I fell into editing magazines…

— James May

I think you're never going to get somewhere ambitious if you don't start out with great ambitions. What I would say is:…

— Christy Clark

As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows…

— A. J. Bowen

I didn't have the easiest childhood. I was never the popular girl in school growing up. I was always the lone black…

— Wendy Williams

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe…

— Charles R. Schwab

When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“There comes a time in everyone’s life—and I do mean in everyone’s life—when you ask yourself what it is that you’ve been…

— Ali Sheikh

Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp…

— John Locke

Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and…

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is…

— Ayn Rand

Prior to having my first child, I had a huge ambition to go into movies and TV.

— Vanna White

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

— Jeffrey Archer

Rangers are a huge club with ambition and I know this is the right fit for me to progress my career.

— Kemar Roofe

If something has not been part of your dreams or ambitions, then you are not awestruck by it.

— Nithya Menen

Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies

— Bob Hope

“In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.”

— Noel DeJesus

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

— Forrest Gander

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.

— Brian O'Driscoll

- the little things plus sensible ambitions; just what we could become here...

— POB Bismark

Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination.

— Bernie Glassman

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

— Kristin Cashore

You can do anything in life you set your mind to, provided it is powered by your heart.

— Anonymous

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you…

— Barack Obama

I just haven't had that level of ambition in terms of being a lead in a film or a TV series because…

— Rachel House

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

— Sallust

It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

— Alfred P. Sloan