Ambition Quotes · Page 68

In order to make your dreams a reality, you must first be willing to take yourself and your dreams seriously.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

— Roxane Gay

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

— Ambrose Bierce

If you sit back and wait for someone else to be ready, you will spend half your life doing nothing.

— Anonymous

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

— John Constable

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

— Hillary Clinton

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

— Adrian Grenier

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

— Chelsea Clinton

Marriage was never a dream or an ambition for me. I thank my real mother for the fact that - unlike my…

— Miranda Hart

An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator

— Jake Lodwick

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything…

— Susan Sontag

Eh, it's not that attractive to have a plan. I know that if I ever feel that I need to make a…

— Bill Murray

Britain lacks that fundamental belief that anyone can make it. What we need is a British dream. Let's give young people the…

— Peter Jones

I think part of being a parent, to love one's child, is to accept them as they come - not to see…

— Michael Sandel

I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind…

— Katy Perry

If you have ambition in football that's the dangerous thing because the ambition will drive you on to make decisions that commercially…

— Simon Jordan

We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the…

— Longchenpa

Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come…

— Roy Bennett

The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a…

— Ibn Warraq

Music is one of my big interests - I once had a rather fanciful ambition to be a singer - and of…

— Tim Crane

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag…

— Frances Hesselbein

Leadership is not about sitting and presiding, it's about a going somewhere. To be buoyant, you must not only ignite passion around…

— Kevin Allen

Meditation is your awakening. The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams, all the projections, all expectations, all…

— Rajneesh

“What elevates one and not another to the level of genius is not only talent and ambition and luck, but a gift…

— Jan Swafford

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

— Philip Sidney

What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?

— Pete Wentz

When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.

— Andrew Haigh

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

— James K. Polk

I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".

— Barack Obama

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

— Samuel Richardson

There are two types of people in this world; those who see things happen and those who make things happen.

— Alex Mwila

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

— Chris Evert

“What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.”

— Sharon Creech

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

— Charles Kuralt

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

— Ovid

There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.

— Tim Ferriss

I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world.

— Azim Premji

The price of greatness is high, but that of smallness is even higher. Dare to dream big and work hard at it.

— Anonymous