Ambition Quotes · Page 59

In my younger days, sometimes family and personal life came second to my ambition.

— Adebayo Akinfenwa

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

— Aslan Maskhadov

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

— Mark Steyn

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

— Carrie Fisher

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

— Anonymous

He has ambition and hunger, but I would not say Messi is the only piece of art at Barca.

— Luis Enrique

“Once you have some yes's in your life, the no's are not that bad.”

— RZA

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

— Orison Swett Marden

“An inchoate mass of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise, he risked…

— Claire Messud

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects…

— Jock Sturges

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do…

— Michelle Gomez

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette…

— Emmanuelle Beart

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

— Michael Dirda

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the…

— Thucydides

You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass…

— Kathe Koja

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I…

— Jackson Pollock

The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of…

— Shane MacGowan

I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be…

— Janeane Garofalo

“The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddling our way toward frugality, simplicity,…

— Edward Abbey

“I grew up with an ambition and determination without which I would have been a good deal happier. I thought a lot…

— Earl Denman

Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare…

— Rajneesh

We've seen their kind before. The terrorists are the heirs to fascism. They have the same wield of power, the same disdain…

— George W. Bush

“The more you think of what is right, the more you tend to make every action in your mind right. The more…

— Christian D. Larson

All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary…

— William Law

“Sometimes the beginning doesn't look like it, but in the end, consistency and determination paints a better picture.”

— Julius Omoyele

Of course I have aspirations and ambitions to play for my country.

— Ashley Young

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

— Juan Manuel Fangio

An ambitious person is one with a mental condition which compels him to work himself to death in order to live.

— Vikrant Parsai

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

— Luc de Clapiers

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

— Vernon Howard

“Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

— Andrea Bocelli

Never stop dreaming because the second you stop your opportunity will come.

— Anonymous

There is no such thing to stand in your lane when you are the lane creator.

— C_c

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

— Val Kilmer

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

— Anonymous

An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.

— Alfred Wainwright

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

— Thomas Keneally

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

— Persis Khambatta

Ambitions are the most demanding things as each one of them needs the special care and extra attention !

— Ritu Ghatourey