Ambition Quotes · Page 61

“Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in…

— Alex Rogers

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

— Joseph Jacobs

I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

— Anonymous

“Talented people hit targets no one else can hit. Ambitious people aim to hit targets no one else can see.”

— Addoo S. Mukhtar

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

— Rohinton Mistry

“I opened my eyes and couldn't find a single precedent, so I became the precedent.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to…

— Ronda Rousey

The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager.

— Graham Taylor

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first…

— Shane Warne

I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided…

— Damian Lewis

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software…

— Bill Gates

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions…

— Saint Augustine

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just…

— Azim Premji

If my ambition in Tottenham is only to win the Carabao Cup or FA Cup, with all the respect for that, I…

— Mauricio Pochettino

There's a negative connotation to ambitious women, and I think that we should be able to be proud of being ambitious and…

— Tory Burch

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he…

— Sai Baba

“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather…

— Chris Ware

From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political…

— Andrew Jackson

To view space as, "Well, let's go to Mars now," or "Let's do this now," maybe we should rethink of space as…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to…

— Joe Bastianich

Because of the financial crash, we've lost trust in these big businesses that were led by a linear ambition to reach the…

— Mary Portas

It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted…

— Gretchen Rubin

“An empty bottle of Jack is almost just as beautiful as a new and unopened bottle...in the same sense as looking down…

— Dave Matthes

I went into politics for the reasons most people do: ambition, self-righteousness, and a desire to help others.

— Jon Lovett

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

— Anonymous

“Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.”

— Enid Shomer

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

— Aaron Lauritsen

I think everyone who's successful consistently is ambitious.

— James Lassiter

“if you're not part of the problem, you're not ambitious enough”

— Josh Stern

“is mathematically compounded of ambition, distraction, uglification and derision,”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

— Emile Hirsch

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

— Anonymous

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

— Roman Payne

That is my ambition, to have killed more people-more helpless people-than any man or woman who has ever lived.

— Jeffrey Dahmer

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

— Anthony Trollope

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.

— John Kricfalusi

A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.

— Mark Shuttleworth

There's a lack of ambition in politics in terms of what we expect from the government, what it means to have a…

— Christine and the Queens