Ambition Quotes · Page 63

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

— William Hazlitt

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

“Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. —Journal of Thomas Merton”

— Gretchen Rubin

“Success is 0% manifesting, 1% accident, and 99% perseverance.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

— C. J. Mahaney

Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .

— Vladimir Putin

Sometimes in order to achieve your dreams you forget to enjoy the journey of life.

— Sushan Sharma

“A dream is not what you see when you sleep. It is what keeps you from falling asleep.”

— Abdul kalam

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can…

— George W. Bush

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and…

— Carl Sandburg

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very…

— Alan Lightman

PSG's ambition of the Champions League is also mine. I know they have a great project. I want to participate in this…

— Angel Di Maria

“and paint, to take care of my father, to feel that I belonged, to do something useful and good with my time.…

— Julianne Donaldson

“Nothing worse than a weak man with ambition, who gains power because those before him died rather than because his ideals were…

— Melina Marchetta

May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in…

— Bette Davis

“And every artist’s life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one’s limitations. To achieve anything you…

— Anonymous

People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they…

— Tony Benn

Despite girls' sparkling resumes - including rates of college enrollment and high school grades that outstrip boys - sexism is a barrier…

— Rachel Simmons

Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something…

— Walt Whitman

All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and…

— Lin Yutang

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also…

— Anonymous

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end…

— Anonymous

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around…

— Garrison Keillor

My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better…

— Royal Robbins

One must have ambition and one must understand the minds ... of men.

— Dhirubhai Ambani

If you want to reach 100% of your goals, you have to put 200% of your effort into them.

— London Mond

Do not let thoughts of failure handicap you. You are capable of doing anything you want to.

— Lucille Pierre

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

— Jose Mourinho

I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.

— Duncan Armstrong

For me, it's ambition. You want more, always. When you achieve one step you need to get the second step.

— Marco Silva

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

— Georg Solti

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

— Sallust

Ambition is priceless thats what I think of it , We hustle and take things that aint ours.

— Dopeboy

“My mind was once diseased with the strange and heady ambition that I might somehow improve the world by living in it.”

— Amelia Gray

Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.

— Anonymous

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

— E. F. Schumacher

Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.

— Marlo Thomas

Acting was in my mind since I was 10 years old. It's just that for a long time it was a hidden ambition.

— Arjun Mathur

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

— Elbert Hubbard

Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going.

— Lynette Fromme