Ambition Quotes · Page 45

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

— Dmitry Medvedev

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Thomas Otway

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

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

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

— Raveena Tandon

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it…

— Pope Francis

Rahel’s toy wristwatch had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on…

— Arundhati Roy

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I…

— William Laud

My main ambition as a historian is to figure out what's really happening in the world, instead of the fictions that humans…

— Yuval Noah Harari

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for…

— Toby Young

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them…

— Steven Millhauser

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation…

— Anonymous

The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than…

— Rod Liddle

“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a…

— Renata Adler

The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this…

— Roman Abramovich

I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t…

— Anonymous

I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year.…

— Tony Reinke

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second…

— Samuel Johnson

I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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

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

— Victor Moses

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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

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

— Walter Savage Landor

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

— Sarah Moores

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

— Seve Ballesteros

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

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

— Claire Bloom

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

— James Joyce

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

— Bryan Johnson

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

— Alexander Pope