“When ambition outstrips ability, that is always a recipe for disaster.” — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star. — Ally Sheedy Copy Share Image
Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere. — Sean Hampton Copy Share Image
For centuries our wealth has come from our ambition, entrepreneurial skills and global reach. — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
As Madonna once said, I'm tough, I'm ambitious and if that makes me a bitch, that's what I am — Madonna Copy Share Image
I would rather you tell me all your dreams and ambition instead of writing me a love note. — Solene Gemtessa Copy Share Image
My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to… — Sak?p Sabanc Copy Share Image
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
“But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me...I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“If I can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition I have is nothing but talk! Luffy must be the man… — Eiichirō Oda Copy Share Image
Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just… — Lisa Ann Sandell Copy Share Image
“Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of the human condition. No, they proclaimed morality as… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected… — Plato Copy Share Image
My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
I was never the type who had a particular ambition. I had friends in college who would say, 'I want to be… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“It's time to stop following your dreams and time to start chasing them!” — Habeeb Akande Copy Share Image
Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition. — Arthur Desmond Copy Share Image
“If you are not working towards something, your life will end with nothing.” — Habeeb Akande Copy Share Image
Don't tell me how bad you want something if you can't even find the drive to work toward it... — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy. — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance. — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of people are in a position of power because their ambition far exceeded their talent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that. — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
