Ambition Quotes · Page 49

“Montmorency’s ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. ”

— Jerome K. Jerome

“The time for careers and passions was gone. Hunger pangs displaced ambition.”

— Panashe Chigumadzi

No one would call me a great cook, but over years of cooking, for me, confidence has replaced ambition.

— Tom Junod

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

— Zig Ziglar

It's human nature to want better and more in Life. You will never grow by settling and staying content...

— Robert Samuel

Dream big only when you have the guts and courage to make your dream a reality.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

You can chase a dream that seems so out of reach, aAnd you know it might not ever come your way. Dream…

— Anonymous

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

— Ella Maillart

“ambition meant never being satisfied, to be always hungering for something more, constantly pushing forward because no success could ever be big…

— Paul Auster

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are…

— Anonymous

“I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored…

— Roman Payne

“Having achieved what I thought was an ultimate ambition, I found, as I think is often the case, that there remained something…

— John Christopher

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

Don't go for less. Always go for the best. Every sunset gives us one day less to live, but every sunrise gives…

— Edwin Mamerto

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only…

— Libba Bray

One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And…

— Rajneesh

If you want to make it as a sportsperson - Become knowledgeable in the sport you want to participate in. Think about…

— Hope Powell

... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration…

— Mary Church Terrell

I've been playing music for a long time, mostly to empty rooms. That's not me getting the violin out. That's the reality…

— Sam Ryder

We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because…

— Karl-Johan Persson

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not…

— C. S. Lewis

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things,…

— Walter Lippmann

“Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I…

— Heather Anastasiu

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

— Paul Shaffer

Your thoughts are the most important asset you have in your desire to achieve your dreams.

— Senora Roy

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

— Vagit Alekperov

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

— David Baldacci

“Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?”

— Joyce Rachelle

We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

— Anonymous

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

— James Young

All my music has always been about positive, having ambition, having goals, having dreams, and believing in yourself.

— R-Truth

In life you have to be ambitious, you have to look forward all the time.

— Gianfranco Zola

You have be to ambitious, or otherwise, you go nowhere in life.

— Jean-Eric Vergne

“Excuses are a powerful thing. One excuse can negate 100 opportunities.”

— Bobby Darnell

Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.

— Emmanuel Macron

Will we ever understand the price of ambition, or ever apply our heart to life with submission?

— Francisco Leon