Ambition Quotes · Page 36

“Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.”

— T.E. Lawrence

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.

— John McCain

“Too much ambition can be the death of a man. ... Or of many, if he can persuade them to follow.”

— Lynette Hill

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

— Alexander Hamilton

“Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed for those who have strong will power”

— Narayanan Palani

Life can be everything you wish. Well, of course if you stop wishing and do something about it.

— Anonymous

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the…

— William Osler

I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count…

— Bertie Carvel

It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing…

— Jimmy Cliff

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our…

— Edmund Burke

I like charcoal drawing a lot. I'm not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I'm on…

— Ben Schnetzer

Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50…

— Brendon Burchard

Helen: You've got talent and ambition. Don: Talent? Ambition? That's dead long ago. That's drowned. That's drifting around with a bloated belly…

— Billy Wilder

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and…

— Graham Norton

Blood Brothers! I've always wanted to play Linda and when I'm old enough, Mrs. Johnston. I would love it if Cameron Mackintosh…

— Francesca Jackson

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take,…

— John Burroughs

The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to…

— Fernando Torres

The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be…

— Chaka Khan

“He admitted but four elementary principles, or more strictly, conditions of bliss. That which he considered chief was (strange to say!) the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

For good or for ill, Britain is in some respects moving away from a prime-ministerial system towards a presidential one. This is…

— Linda Colley

Victory is not how well you fought but how well you strive to win!

— Anonymous

The Premiership is where you want to be; everyone does. Otherwise, you question people's ambition.

— Robert Green

I'm not looking backward I'm looking forward make the future better.

— Anonymous

My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team in the…

— Louis van Gaal

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

— William Hazlitt

Word to wise...Never tell someone with ambition what they can't do. They will work even harder just to prove you wrong.

— Anonymous

There is only one possible way to ever see the dreams of our hearts come to fruition and that is to try.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

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

I've always been very ambitious and very determined and very compassionate at the same time.

— Molly Bloom

Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.

— Thucydides

People often say seeing a rainbow is exciting,I'm like wait until you see the stars.

— Manotti Street

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

— Hans Selye

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

— Joshua Lederberg

If you are calm about your ambitions, you become confident of achieving what you set out to do.

— Shiv Nadar

If i can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition i have is nothing but talk..

— Zoro

If you have got a dream and you've got ambition, then go for it. You know, unless you try, you'll never know.

— Eddie the Eagle