Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly… — Rowan Atkinson
Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's… — Anna Kendrick
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. — Norman Mailer
I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word. — John Hurt
I had always drawn, every day as long as I had held a pencil, and just assumed everyone else had too…Art had saved me and… — Noel Fielding
Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don't think like that. I never have expectations like, 'When I'm 19 I'm going to do this, and… — Renee Zellweger
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off, but they've all given me a fervor. An angry ambition that cannot be… — Tobey Maguire
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left,… — Maurice Chevalier
Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer. However, if you can’t see yourself doing anything else, and… — Kristin Chenoweth
I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a… — Michael Jackson
I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it — Claire Bloom
My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent. — Adrian Grenier
My ambition is peace and perfection. — DeForest Kelley
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do… — Tracey Ullman
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us — Peter Ustinov
Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high — Paul Allen
You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire.… — Kathe Koja
Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them. — Sumantra Ghoshal
I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building and… — Bill Moggridge
I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you… — Brendan Gleeson
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. — Peter Straub
Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offsprings of our pride and carelesness,… — Raymond Burr
Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO. — George W. Bush
We've seen their kind before. The terrorists are the heirs to fascism. They have the same wield of power, the same disdain for the individual,… — George W. Bush
It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family,… — Abigail Spencer

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