Ambition Quotes · Page 71

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

— Henry Ford

All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to…

— Zig Ziglar

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

— Walter Scott

That paper in my vision so I grind with precision, a hustlers ambition to accumulate commission.

— Paul Wall

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

— Mercy Otis Warren

Who says the sky is the limit when there's footprints on the moon.

— Anonymous

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

— George Bernard Shaw

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

— Angela Merkel

Never say no. There is no such thing as impossible unless we ourselves believe it. No matter what the task or dream…

— Anil Sinha

One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had…

— Art Spiegelman

“the vague feeling of ambitions in common, the awakening of a higher intelligence among the vulgar herd of dunces and dunderheads they…

— Émile Zola

What I try to do - I mean 'try,' because you don't get there all the time - is to have impact…

— Michael Mann

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically…

— Beau Willimon

“Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in…

— William Shakespeare

You write for glory. You play for glory. There's an ambition to excel, isn't there, to be a star? To score more,…

— James Salter

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And…

— Janelle Monae

I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as…

— Lana Del Rey

It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The passionate fans they have and also the ambition of the manager and the chairman. It was an easy descion to choose…

— Jose Fonte

I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected,…

— Rebecca Ferguson

The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a…

— Martin Jacques

Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude…

— Charles Lindbergh

“This was our ambition: to be small and clear and free. Alas, the summer’s energy wanes quickly, A moment and it is…

— John Ashbery

Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.

— Bruce Sterling

“Don't chase butterflies, tend to your garden, the butterfly will come.”

— Abhijit Naskar

For those with ambition, reality is more of a creation than an unalterable certainty.

— Lori Guinn

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

— Lawrence Welk

“Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.”

— John Connolly

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

— Jeb Bush

Once you've been number one, you can never be satisfied with less.

— Chris Evert

The only motivation that will work for you is the motivation that you give yourself.

— Jesse Schewe

“I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.”

— William Shakespeare

I kissed the stars goodbye a longtime ago because in order to be successful it involves no sleep.

— Rasheed Bryant

I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I…

— J. K. Rowling

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

— Thucydides

It's my ambition to be a regular number six, number eight, a box-to-box player.

— Scott McTominay

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

— Paul McCartney

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

— Winston Churchill

“Spending time with people without ambition is a self-destruction.”

— Amen Muffler