Ambition Quotes · Page 74

“If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are”

— Mitch Albom

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

— Baltasar Gracian

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

— Aristotle

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

— Harrison Ford

Dare to imagine big as facts today were in the imaginations of yesterday.

— Senora Roy

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

— Anonymous

I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.

— Sebastian Coe

Once you know yourself and what you can do, you become more daring towards realizing your dreams.

— Anonymous

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to…

— Harrison Ford

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when…

— Alfred P. Sloan

Bollywood is neither an industry nor a corporate house. It's a jungle of ambition where every one wants to grow taller than…

— Vivek Agnihotri

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce…

— Charles Kennedy

When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy…

— Ricardo Carvalho

My ambition is we want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create, and if it…

— Daniel Ek

The ambitious women usually work twice as hard to make up the handicap of being usually left out of the chummy male…

— Sucheta Dalal

“Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above them, owning nothing,…

— Hermann Hesse

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My ambitions have been raised as I have less to lose. I feel I could do anything and if people don't like…

— Uma Thurman

Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way…

— Ida Tarbell

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they…

— Robley Wilson

Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Maura looks stunned, as though she's been slapped. "What about me? Don't you trust me?" She gives a hysterical little laugh. Tears…

— Jessica Spotswood

I had two competing ambitions when I was a child: I wanted to be a Scientist and Discover Great Things, but I…

— Suw Charman-Anderson

I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first.

— Jay Presson Allen

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

— Kris Kristofferson

After studying theatre from National School of Drama, theatre became a passion, an ambition.

— Atul Kulkarni

I want to do everything, and I don't think that's too ambitious.

— Megan Hilty

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

— Anonymous

Good things come to people who work hard. And if they don't come, work harder.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

— Satya Nadella

“In English we say: every cloud has a silver lining. In Naskarian we say: every struggle has a human shining.”

— Abhijit Naskar

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

— Hugh B. Brown

Appreciation of my own mortality stifled every ambition I ever had.

— Steve Fowler

“*Employee* is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Females need to search for a man with goals and ambition because 10 years from now swag isnt gonna pay your bills .

— Green Monk

I feel as if I'm getting better all the time. At the same time, though, I'm ambitious.

— John McGinn

I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines.

— Robert Fagles

Your feet will never go where your mind has never been! Vision+Ambition =

— Billy Vincent