Ambition Quotes · Page 60

Michael encouraged me to do it, but I'm not ambitious to be a star.

— Shakira Caine

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

— John Stott

I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up, because I am still looking for ideas.

— Anonymous

Find a man with ambition because in 20 years swag won't pay the bills Yeah, quotes from google won't pay them either.

— Anonymous

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

— Quintilian

“It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.”

— Martina Boone

“Never in England were there so many gentlemen and so little gentleness.”

— C.J. Sansom

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. A goal without a plan is just a wish.

— Nishan Panwar

Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don't consider ambition to…

— Rob Lowe

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or…

— Seneca the Younger

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is…

— Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

My role at the USTA allows me to fulfill my ambition to open up opportunities for people to play tennis that may…

— Katrina Adams

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do…

— Anonymous

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature…

— Alexander Pope

I've always wanted to make people laugh. It's been my only ambition, ever since my dad introduced me to the genius of…

— Diane Morgan

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune…

— Alexandra Fuller

Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism,…

— Russell Kirk

But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then…

— Rick Bayan

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never…

— John Hurt

England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people…

— Mitt Romney

If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors…

— Bella Pollen

Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the time to scale back…

— Steve Ballmer

I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make…

— Margaret Thatcher

For a successful man, your greatest ambition is to fight for your mission.

— Jumbo Obiesia Ukot

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

— Johann Lamont

Future is not made by those who dreams bigger. Future is made by those who willing to make their dreams a reality.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“There are thousands of other women to choose from. You understand me? And this court runs on ambition alone.”

— Cindy Pon

It has always been my dream and ambition to introduce Irish dancing to the world.

— Michael Flatley

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

— Haruki Murakami

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the…

— Amah Lambert

Acting is a big ambition, but I still have a professional wrestling world to conquer.

— Luke Harper

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

— William Shakespeare

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

— Lao Tzu

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side

— William Shakespeare

My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football…

— James Nesbitt

“Ambition is a drug that turns it's addicts into potential madmen.”

— Emile Cioran

“We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

It's true that PSG have the ambition to win the Champions League, so they could be interesting for a player like me.

— Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang