I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody.… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I had no sense of having reached some goal because I was an etoile at the Paris Opera. My ambition, if you… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and… — Edward Bates Copy Share Image
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are,… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point,… — William V. Shannon Copy Share Image
Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Time helps those who are present, gravity helps those who are moving, nature helps those who evolve, reality listens to those who… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Ambitious girl, you just wanna win, and you'd rather chase your dreams, Then to try to chase these men That try to… — Wale Copy Share Image
Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Young men and women start out with equal opportunities and ambition but so often that equality fractures as they reach their 30s… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
If you really want to work towards your dreams, you're going to need loads of passion, and practice. Like everything else. — Cheryl Plonkey Copy Share Image
As a young black immigrant at an inner-city school, I saw how poverty of ambition left many from disadvantaged backgrounds on the… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
I don't think ambition was ever my strong suit. I always wanted to be successful, because you want to be good at… — Selma Blair Copy Share Image
“To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
I've been interested in advertising for a long time; I sort of think a lot about that mechanism, about this tool, which… — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Dreams won't come looking for you. That's why you have to chase them. Pursue them until they become reality, then hold on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
However you define territorial ambitions, it need not be a country that's right next to the U.S. for it to exercise its… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
I have no ambition whatsoever. I don't know whether that's because I'm afraid of losing, or of failure - of not being… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have… — Alfred Kreymborg Copy Share Image
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very… — Galt Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
I was head coach before and my main ambition is to return to that. But to work for Maurizio and Chelsea was… — Gianfranco Zola Copy Share Image
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
When your commitment is deeper than the sea and your ambition is taller than a mountain, your future will be brighter than… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
