Ambition Quotes · Page 34

I don't know any player with ambition who wants to sit there, week in week out, and not play.

— Darren Bent

Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.

— Sam Altman

There are two types of people in this world; those who see things happen and those who make things happen.

— Alex Mwila

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

— Samuel Richardson

I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".

— Barack Obama

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

— Ovid

There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.

— Tim Ferriss

“What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.”

— Sharon Creech

I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians.…

— Lindsey Graham

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love…

— Joseph Addison

If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of…

— Alain de Botton

Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in…

— Alexander Pope

“What ambitious story could you turn your life into? You can’t start over. You have to use only what’s in the toolbox—and…

— Elizabeth Hyde Stevens

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

— Horace Greeley

They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel…

— Robert Burton

You've got ambition, strong intuition. You're on a mission to be number one. What ever it takes to get what you deserve.…

— Robben Ford

The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father…

— Anonymous

So Disney has their full support behind it, which is great, but again it's got to be the right story. It's got…

— Joseph Kosinski

I have no ambition in this world but one, and that is to be a fireman. The position may, in the eyes…

— Chief Edward F Croker

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would…

— Allen Tate

I didn't have a burning ambition. I mean, I remember a teacher asking us, 'What do you want to do?' and I…

— Jason Watkins

Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to…

— Olive Schreiner

“I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of…

— Ruskin Bond

“A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I…

— William Boyd

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

— Chris Evert

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

— Charles Kuralt

Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

— Suzanne Curchod

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

— Tim Burton

I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world.

— Azim Premji

Arsenal is a team who challenge for the top and definitely match my ambitions and personal motivation.

— Petr Cech

The price of greatness is high, but that of smallness is even higher. Dare to dream big and work hard at it.

— Anonymous

“In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“Follow your star, it's never too late, even if it doesn't quite happen as you expect.”

— Jemima Pett

Look to the present, lock your eyes on the prize but don't throw away the key.

— Anastasia Blanchard

You can stand there thinking, 'if only,' or you can go and take charge and change it.

— Anonymous

Really wanted to be a cage fighter. . . but the hamster kept kicking the shit out of me

— Sarah Moores

Life throws us curve-balls all the time. We just need to practice hitting them.

— Matthew Van Zyl

I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

— Roxane Gay

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

— Ambrose Bierce