Ambition Quotes · Page 64

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

— Lasse Hallstrom

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on…

— Burton Cummings

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

— Zig Ziglar

“I’m driven by what drives most people: ambition,” Rich said to me.”

— Daniel Ammann

Perseverance is the key to quenching the thirst of your ambition

— Idil Ismail

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

— Joseph Joubert

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

— James Wolcott

Team is all about vision, goal and ambition... It's about wanting to be the best you can be as a group.

— Mickey Arthur

I just wanted to play tennis. It wasn't a job. It was an ambition. I knew I could make money at it.…

— Martina Navratilova

I don't have any ambitions. I am looking forward to retiring, or at least having more time. When I was young I…

— Richard Coles

When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it…

— David Nevins

Females these days really need to search for a man with goals and ambition because 10 years from now 'Swag' isn't going…

— Anonymous

I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one — the ambition of serving the great cause…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Who knows how easily ambition disguises itself under the name of a calling, possibly in good faith and deceiving itself, in sanctimonious…

— Victor Hugo

[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and…

— Maxine Cheshire

“But you have to ignore all of that and work endlessly to make your visions a reality. Stake a claim on your…

— Elise Hooper

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a…

— Garry Trudeau

“A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and…

— Thomas Mann

“In this world, where the strong prey upon the weak, and the cunning manipulate the naive, it is imperative that you become…

— Kevin L. Michel

I had no ambition to go into show business when I was growing up. I started out as an advertising copywriter and…

— Bob Einstein

All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place…

— Anonymous

Throughout the history of America, we have been a nation driven by the idea of the frontier - a place where law…

— Ben Domenech

How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable…

— William Godwin

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

— Anonymous

“No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.”

— Irvine Welsh

I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.

— Gabriella Wilde

Those who bring sunshine into the life of others cannot keep it from themselves

— Hussein Nishah

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

— Juliette Binoche

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but…

— Rose Macaulay

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

— Mark Twain

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

— Frank Sinatra

Ambition is priceless, it's something that's in yo veins, and I put that on my name.

— Wale

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

— Epicurus

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

— Liam Neeson

It was always my ambition to be on the cover of a free gay magazine.

— Pete Doherty

Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let's just say that I feel I have the ambition and determination to succeed as a coach.

— Gennaro Gattuso

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do it wake up.

— Anonymous

“Nighttime is flight time - master the night, you'll master the calendar.”

— Abhijit Naskar