Ambition Quotes · Page 52

Shoot for the moon, if u miss, u will land among the stars

— Fady

When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our…

— John Stott

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job…

— Ray Winstone

Dublin and the Irish music scene in general has the exact same thing going on that Nashville has. Where authenticity is regarded…

— CMAT

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

— Edmund Burke

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on…

— Burton Cummings

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

— Michael J. Fox

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to…

— Dervla Murphy

“THE EMPRESS LO was not beautiful but she was ambitious and, sometimes, ambition can take you further than beauty. The women of…

— Hope Barrett

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

— John Constable

If you want to live a happy life then fall in love with your passion not with any person

— Shakeel Alam

In terms of putting the cast together, no problems. You know, the only problem always is just price-point. Our ambitions as we…

— Eric Fellner

A man who wishes to better himself is opposite a man who is better.

— Anonymous

Cain Velasquez, he has some technical difficulties, but he has ambition, and he's fearless. He wants to win so badly, and he's…

— Fedor Emelianenko

My ambition with 'Redoubtable' was to make a film that would be aesthetically pleasing, charming, and touching.

— Michel Hazanavicius

I was very ambitious as a young actor, but I wasn't good at being ambitious.

— Christopher Timothy

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

— Oliver Goldsmith

I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my…

— Fethullah Gulen

A nation may rise and fall a man may die but an idea lives on

— Hussein Nishah

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

— Baruch Spinoza

An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“There was no ambition to be famous, no desire to have pieces played by famous orchestras, no secret wish for commissions or…

— Alec Wilder

The ambitious women usually work twice as hard to make up the handicap of being usually left out of the chummy male…

— Sucheta Dalal

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

— Michael Korda

“Time helps those who are present, gravity helps those who are moving, nature helps those who evolve, reality listens to those who…

— Abhijit Naskar

I think sometimes we in the industry have to do ambitious projects.

— Harvey Weinstein

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

— Andrew Haigh

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually…

— Jonathan Swift

“Ambitions tend to Remain undisturbed by Realities.”

— Frank Herbert

“The piercing fanfare of the brass against the brutal boom and rattle of the drums surged through the air. At the head…

— Clark Zlotchew

“Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to…

— Suzy Kassem

When I read about Gram Parsons' dream of this Cosmic American Music when I was in my late teens, that stuck with…

— Richard Ashcroft

I've always been a really ambitious person.

— Christina Ricci

My ambition was just to be able to play guitar.

— Angus Young

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

— Charles Gounod

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

— John McCain

If you get it, then you can do it.

— Anthony Barger

England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people…

— Mitt Romney

The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of…

— Edward Gibbon

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

— Patricia Wentworth