Ambition Quotes · Page 41

“Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Manny, what are you doing working in auto parts?” “Resting. My ambition is handicapped by laziness.”

— Charles Bukowski

My ambition isn't just to be successful in showbusiness - it's to be a successful person.

— Lee Evans

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

— Peter Straub

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

— Forrest Gander

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.

— Brian O'Driscoll

Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination.

— Bernie Glassman

- the little things plus sensible ambitions; just what we could become here...

— POB Bismark

I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition…

— Jane Lynch

Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

— Thomas Woods

When you talk about the ambition to get more girls to play at a younger age, they are inspired by watching Toni…

— Phil Neville

I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would…

— Bennett Miller

If you are determined to succeed you will, if you are determined to fail you will, it is only through determination that…

— Frederica Ehimen

The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

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

To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present,…

— Erich Jantsch

Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity;…

— Gerald M. Loeb

The passionate fans they have and also the ambition of the manager and the chairman. It was an easy descion to choose…

— Jose Fonte

“From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or…

— Benjamin Disraeli

I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as…

— Lana Del Rey

I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power…

— Raymond Pettibon

The reason to go public is that it is a massive branding, marketing, credibility, trust-building exercise with your customers, and then it…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

“This was our ambition: to be small and clear and free. Alas, the summer’s energy wanes quickly, A moment and it is…

— John Ashbery

Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies

— Bob Hope

“In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.”

— Noel DeJesus

I just haven't had that level of ambition in terms of being a lead in a film or a TV series because…

— Rachel House

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

— Sallust

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

— Kristin Cashore

You can do anything in life you set your mind to, provided it is powered by your heart.

— Anonymous

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you…

— Barack Obama

Prior to having my first child, I had a huge ambition to go into movies and TV.

— Vanna White

Peerlessness is a very treacherous ambition; so mind where and who you tread on.

— Evans Ubom

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

— John Adams

“They are what human beings turn into when they trade life for existence and ambition for security.”

— Raymond Chandler

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Never allow anyone to take YOUR spirit away from you.

— Khloe Kardashian

If something has not been part of your dreams or ambitions, then you are not awestruck by it.

— Nithya Menen

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

— Jeffrey Archer

Rangers are a huge club with ambition and I know this is the right fit for me to progress my career.

— Kemar Roofe

“With great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita