I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
My ambitions have been raised as I have less to lose. I feel I could do anything and if people don't like… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
One who desires to excel should remain committed and make the best use of his talent. Not necessarily outperform others, but his… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“We ought to take what our Master has given us and return it to Him with interest (Matt. 25:26–27). But ambition can… — Hannah K. Grieser Copy Share Image
By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So long as we do not know definitely what we want, our forces will be scattered, and so long as our forces… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Define yourself by action. and make every action the mirror of ambition. Have ambition to climb the sky of success by being… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Really wanted to be a cage fighter. . . but the hamster kept kicking the shit out of me — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought… — Chris Corrigan Copy Share Image
There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
When you are reaching your dream, you got reason to brag, because not everyone has the courage to pursue theirs. — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
Our dreams are like our nightmares, we have to feed them to keep them alive. — Beautiful Mind Copy Share Image
I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we… — Pierre Pettigrew Copy Share Image
To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job . — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time. — Brassai Copy Share Image
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
If something's broke, fix it. If you don't know how, learn. If you're not willing to learn, don't complain about it. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be an actor but didn't know how to go about it. That's why my ambition, initially, was… — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
“to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . .… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day. — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I mean, I was ambitious about quality, but… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
“You see what I am driving at. The mentally handicapped do not have a consciousness of power. Because of this perhaps their… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.” — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image