Ambition Quotes · Page 48

“Which dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”

— William Shakespeare

Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures.

— Anonymous

Set clear goals and create and initiate a plan of action that propels you toward the life you wish for.

— Senora Roy

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

— Judi Dench

Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

— Jimmy Buffett

Committing to a goal does not always bring action, yet committing to an action will invariably bring you to your goal.

— Jeffrey Fry

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

— Richard Branson

The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance.…

— Lisette Model

The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the…

— Louis XIV

Cain Velasquez, he has some technical difficulties, but he has ambition, and he's fearless. He wants to win so badly, and he's…

— Fedor Emelianenko

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case…

— Jeremy Clarkson

When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when…

— Katie Price

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a…

— Henry Van Dyke

words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the…

— Price Pritchett

Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well-- Look to the helm, good master--many…

— Walter Scott

If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the…

— Henry James

“Having this, we want that. Owning some, we want more. Standing here, we wish to be there. If it's impossible, we struggle…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are…

— Zhang Xin

I'm trying to encourage everybody how to go get as much as they want based on their ambition, their drive, their education,…

— Rush Limbaugh

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they…

— Barney Frank

It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination…

— Hamilton Jordan

People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men…

— Sharlene05

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

— John Dryden

I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.

— Nish Kumar

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

I've never told anyone, but my ambition is to become the leading all-time scorer of free kicks in Serie A.

— Andrea Pirlo

There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant.

— W. C. Fields

“The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.”

— Habeeb Akande

Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

— James A. Champy

Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

— Ban Ki-moon

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

— Bob Dylan

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

— Horace

My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church.

— Santiago Calatrava

I realize I'm an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.

— Rob Brown

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

— Theophrastus

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

— Tony Fernandes

I am happy at PSV, but I am a player with a lot of ambition.

— Georginio Wijnaldum

“A lot of people spend a lot of time chasing a lot of things that will never bring lasting happiness.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman