Ambition Quotes · Page 11

Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.

— J. Oswald Sanders

What great changes have not been ambitious?

— Melinda Gates

I wasn't very ambitious. I really wanted to get married.

— Amanda Eliasch

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere,

— Herbert Hoover

The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such…

— Alexander Hamilton

“...those whose tastes run to personal power [can] never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.”

— Jack McDevitt

Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.

— Emmanuel Macron

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was…

— Alastair Campbell

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

— Lloyd Blankfein

Success is the outcome of aspiration, preparation, dedication and inspiration.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

— Gerald R. Ford

Perhaps one of the main antidotes to depression, lack of self-esteem, loneliness and so forth is the recognition that we really do…

— Tenzin Palmo

There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in…

— Michael Leunig

Success is choice, if you wish it you may get it and if you don't expect it, you will never have it.…

— Olajide Oluwatobiloba

“A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to Pierrot”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Be ambitious, but never compromise yourself or anyone else to get to where you want to be.

— Anonymous

I know what I want and know my values, and therefore, it's easy to take hard choices when you know what the…

— Ada Hegerberg

Most people spend more time planning their grocery shopping than designing their future. The basic difference between people who live their dreams…

— Anonymous

My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring…

— Swami Vivekananda

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

— John Stott

I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant…

— Geraldine Brooks

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

— Thomas Merton

I've never told anyone, but my ambition is to become the leading all-time scorer of free kicks in Serie A.

— Andrea Pirlo

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

— Gentry Lee