Ambition Quotes · Page 57

Your success in life is determined by an inner drive accompanied by an external effort.

— Anonymous

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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

I'm a choreographer and a director, and I have no ambition beyond that.

— Matthew Bourne

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

— John Webster

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose…

— Barack Obama

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive…

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure…

— Stephanie Gilmore

Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And…

— C.P. Cavafy

“For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

— John Hurt

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with…

— Jon Landau

Everybody speaks about City having lots of money, but it is not about that. It is about ambition, and I have spoken…

— Edin Dzeko

The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made…

— Marilynne Robinson

If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But…

— Rich Mullins

Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day…

— W. Cleon Skousen

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or…

— John Adams

In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find…

— Panayiotis Zavos

In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind…

— John Zachary Young

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They…

— H.G. Wells

When I was eight, my parents saved up to send me to private school, but I found it so tough that I…

— Peter Jones

Create a vision that makes you want to jump out of the bed in the in the morning.

— Anonymous

“The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

“Ambition is natural when you don't have anything. You know what you're driving for.”

— Harlan Coben

I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.

— Mariah Carey

You can do anything you can became anything you just need to believe in yourself and your dreams.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.

— Sumantra Ghoshal

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

— Robert Burton

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

— Anonymous

Honestly, I always had the silent ambition of being a director.

— Arbaaz Khan

Ambition is priceless its something thats in your veins and I put that on my name.

— Wale

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

— Lynn Davies

Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.

— Eoin Colfer

Dream as big as you want to, but don't let anyone or anything stop you

— Anonymous

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

— Daley Thompson

The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

— Robert Burns