Ambition Quotes · Page 39

I burn inside with an ambition that feels out of place in the early 21st century.

— Bryan Johnson

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it

— Claire Bloom

Don't allow anything stop you from achieving anything in life that you know you truly want to achieve.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“The only way the weight of the world can break you down, is if you carry it the wrong way.”

— Lionel Suggs

The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.

— Anonymous

Not a fan of people who retreat from ambition big ideas and defining moments.

— Anonymous

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

— Vera Farmiga

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

— Pierre Corneille

To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces.…

— Cynthia Ozick

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his…

— John McCain

“It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish…

— John Locke

But every job I've had I just end up writing tunes and skiving - so everything has been leading up to it,…

— Gerry Cinnamon

My biggest ambition, ever since I was a boy in Pakistan, has been to play cricket at the highest level. If I…

— Imran Tahir

Shakespeare taught me everything I know about love. Its vibrancy. How afterwards your life seems darker. And everything I know about power,…

— Paterson Joseph

As you continue to successfully make each day better than the last, choosing to make great decisions that are not only ambitious,…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Anything Can Be Accomplished When You Set Your Mind To Doing So. It Is, However The Lengths At Which You Go To…

— Pacifiersucker

Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as…

— Leo Tolstoy

People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their…

— Pete Hamill

If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and…

— Billy Corgan

I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them…

— Wale

Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye,…

— William Gilmore Simms

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old

— Ethel Merman

“Let people stick to their philosophy, you stick to your passion.”

— Amit Kalantri

'Intensity' is a good word. It's like ambition, if it's not ambition at expense of someone else.

— Thom Tillis

My ambition is to work in quality projects and make a name for myself.

— Shweta Menon

Let go of all the desires that hinders your progress and move towards your purpose.

— Bokamoso Bruce Tlhwaele

“Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision.

— Nabil N Jamal

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?

— Thomas Higgons

If you don't have ambitions then you're not a football player.

— Patrick van Aanholt

“You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition.”

— Amit Kalantri

“People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what”

— Paulo Coelho

“I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.”

— Tim Fargo

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

— Mason Cooley

My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people.

— Dmitry Medvedev

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

— Craig Ferguson

We know the difference of ambition driving you to run for something and feeling a calling.

— Karen Pence