Ambition Quotes · Page 35

In order to make your dreams a reality, you must first be willing to take yourself and your dreams seriously.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

— Philip Massinger

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

— Adrian Grenier

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

— Hillary Clinton

If you sit back and wait for someone else to be ready, you will spend half your life doing nothing.

— Anonymous

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

— John Constable

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

— Chelsea Clinton

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

— James K. Polk

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

— Anatoli Boukreev

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to…

— Ashley Greene

Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of…

— Margaret Thatcher

Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or…

— C.E. Morgan

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write…

— Barry Barish

I was never jealous of my best friend. But I was envious of his talent. I had achieved my ambition of being…

— Andrew Ridgeley

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never…

— Orison Swett Marden

When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different…

— Ian Curtis

Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to…

— Garry Wills

“Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is,…

— Wallace Stegner

I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band.…

— George Harrison

As I got older, then my particular ambitions started cohering around creating a world in which people of different races or backgrounds…

— Barack Obama

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I come from a very small island which is packed with people. I mean, jam-packed with people. I've lived a life which…

— Robert Plant

“He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and thrive. Not everyone…

— Anne Mallory

Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that…

— Chris Kirubi

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

— Philip Sidney

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.

— Andrew Haigh

What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?

— Pete Wentz

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I'd like to come back as an independent woman who has more ambition than I have.

— Jenny Bird

I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.

— Ian Mckellen

A work done with full dedication and determination insures the accomplishment of your goals.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.

— Robert Frost

“Be the cactus, a proof of unsubmission, and blossom amidst the fiercest environment.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Step into the future with focus knowing that the only way to kill your dream is trying to find another.”

— Moffat Machingura

When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.

— Chris de Burgh

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

— Edmund Burke

Surround yourself with the right people; people who are on the move, focused, determined and ambitious to achieve more!

— Ricardo Housham

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

— Barbra Streisand

“My dream, my right - my failure, my fuel - my life, my ethics - my body, my choice.”

— Abhijit Naskar