Ambition Quotes · Page 38

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

— Robert Greene

“When ambition outstrips ability, that is always a recipe for disaster.”

— Jan Siegel

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

— Ally Sheedy

For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.

— George Herbert

I was not pushed into the business by anything other than my own ambition and my own dream of wanting to act.

— Tina Majorino

Success doesn't happen overnight, keep your eyes on the prize and don't look back.

— Erin Andrews

Dreams are for people who sleep, reality is for people who can't sleep without making their dreams come true

— Anonymous

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

— Paulo Coelho

The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay…

— Simon Barnes

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his…

— Mordecai Richler

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re…

— Leah Stewart

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I…

— Marie Bashkirtseff

Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set…

— Orison Swett Marden

I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest…

— Janis Joplin

My ambition is to one day shed my wardrobe and figure out how to look like Gilles Bensimon - or a famous…

— Charles Finch

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter…

— Quintilian

“That was the real difference, Ferguson concluded. Not too little money or too much money, not what a person did or failed…

— Paul Auster

When you're young, you believe in the most basic things. You believe that there are good people around you. And you don't…

— Jim Kerr

If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first…

— Anonymous

I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition…

— J. K. Rowling

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and…

— Maurice Chevalier

Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty,…

— Harold Clarke Goddard

“You were thinking about how suburbs are perfect cradles for dreaming: they practically beg you to imagine another life, one lived at…

— Colin Walsh

Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief…

— Thomas S. Monson

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

— Thomas Otway

Girl with intentions. Greatness is the only expectation and she won't settle for anything less.

— Raghib Clitso

“Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.”

— Helen Keller

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

— Mason Cooley

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

— Michel de Montaigne

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

My ambition is to contribute my quota to the overall success of the team.

— Victor Moses

Your success in life is determined by an inner drive accompanied by an external effort.

— Anonymous

As a player, you should have ambition - I'm sure every player you speak to wants to play in the Champions League.

— Nicklas Bendtner

When I see people scratching and clawing towards ambition and greed, I wonder why they are doing it and for what.

— Raveena Tandon

Hell is NOT a place you go if you're not a Christian, It's the FAILURE, of your Life's Greatest Ambition.

— Immortal Technique

No one likes to play aggressive golf more than me, but at times it's better to temper your ambition.

— Seve Ballesteros

People always told me that the sky is the limit, but that flag on the moon has my mind thinking different.

— Sarah Moores

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

— Walter Savage Landor

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

— Alexander Pope

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

— James Joyce