Is it possible to have too much ambition? Is it possible…

I have just enough talent to convince my ambition that everything is possible.

— Jack Savoretti

I try to live in a state of being grateful as much as possible. I'm not always successful.

— Timothy B. Schmit

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

— Ben Elton

I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like…

— David Morrissey

Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.

— Lloyd Blankfein

It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our…

— Henry David Thoreau

Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as…

— John Perkins

I'm hungry and ambitious.

— Julen Lopetegui

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions

— Anonymous

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's…

— Janelle Monae

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

— Jessye Norman

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

— Fergus Henderson