Ambition Quotes · Page 73

What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should…

— Alain de Botton

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or…

— Seneca the Younger

“One of the most important variables in whether an enterprise remains great lies in a simple question: what is the truth about…

— RosettaBooks

I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So…

— Carice van Houten

Take ones adversity Learn from their misfortune Learn from their pain Believe in something Believe in yourself Turn adversity into ambition Now…

— Tupac Shakur

For a successful man, your greatest ambition is to fight for your mission.

— Jumbo Obiesia Ukot

Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover…

— Jake LaMotta

My ambition is to keep the audience guessing... that is my path to a long career.

— David Oyelowo

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

— Robert Greene

Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And…

— Sharon Zukin

“if you're not part of the problem, you're not ambitious enough”

— Josh Stern

Be very ambitious! The only way to achieve your ultimate goal helps you overcome potential obstacles that might get in the way.…

— Kemmy Nola

“We are only limited by what we can dream.”

— Terri Nakamura

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering…

— Anonymous

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or…

— Robert Greene

I don't really have an ambition to become the Rolling Stones, or anything like that. For me, it's just playing music is…

— Jonathan Jackson

“Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Don't just lie there dreaming, get on your feet and do something about those dreams.

— Anonymous

I've been playing music for a long time, mostly to empty rooms. That's not me getting the violin out. That's the reality…

— Sam Ryder

Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.

— Dana Hussein

I've written about this before, but the sad truth is this: There are only a handful of Trump true believers in the…

— Rick Wilson

It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

— Kevin Spacey

“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There are fewer ambitious individuals in the world today than individuals who believe they are morally obliged to be ambitious.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me…

— Ellen Barkin

Haters may push you but determination will give you the keys to drive.

— Gee Linder

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You…

— Louis de Bernieres

“For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

— William Shakespeare

Well, we're working hard all the time. We have ambitions.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

“This was my ambition: to become a good wife and mother. Plus one improbable extra: [...] to find, deep inside, my own…

— Lydia Minatoya

I try to always give my all, and I have the ambition to improve every day.

— Lucas Vazquez

Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made…

— William Ernest Henley

Don't let someone who gave up on their own dreams, talk you into giving up on yours.

— Rashida Rowe

I think my mother had a lot of opportunity when she was a kid. She was a model, and she did a…

— Kim Basinger

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to…

— Paul Auster

“If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do…

— Paddy Ashdown

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

— Anonymous

We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to…

— Sharan Burrow