Ambition Quotes · Page 26

Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

— Walter Keane

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

— Charles Bukowski

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.

— John Barnes

It does not matter how fast or slow you move towards your goals as long as you do not stop.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura…

— Sonia Levitin

Stay away from people who try to belittle your faith, goals and ambitions. Follow your heart and keep pushing forward.

— Anonymous

Let work itself be the ambition.

— Narendra Modi

To be the best in your field is a great ambition, and requires discipline and a huge amount of effort. The athletes…

— Giorgio Armani

“you think I am going to give up now? I'm so close.”

— A. Rosa

Those who say they're not ambitious are being disingenuous.

— Mick Hucknall

Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm.…

— Laozi

I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I…

— Albert Camus

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

— Rebecca Miller

“Give God a break: work for what you are praying for.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Motivation is a motor. If it doesn't start, you're not going anywhere.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to…

— Ronda Rousey

Although the needs of babies have changed very little over the millennia, over the past decades, female equality in education and occupational…

— Joan Raphael-Leff

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

— Arthur Desmond

I've been producing records, and as early as my late teens, early 20s, I put out a hip-hop record and then the…

— Balthazar Getty

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

— Zadie Smith

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I…

— William Laud

Don't wish for the best alone. Move toward it and grab the excellent, never give up on the first attempt. Life is…

— Kemmy Nola

I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me,…

— Eva Green

Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.

— Wolfgang Ketterle