Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of… — Bill W.
Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent,… — Samuel Fuller
To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition. — Arturo Sandoval
If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life… — Rich Mullins
You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die. — Gurbaksh Chahal
Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will… — William Jewett Tucker
There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds… — Christian Wiman
It has always been my dream and ambition to introduce Irish dancing to the world. — Michael Flatley
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art. — Kit Williams
Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend. — Atom Egoyan
There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London… — Trevor Phillips
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block… — Anna Garlin Spencer
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the… — Robley Wilson
Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to… — William V. Shannon
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original… — Thomas Brooks
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. — Seneca the Younger
Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the… — Daisaku Ikeda
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year. — William Styron
When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and… — Jacqueline Novogratz
My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my… — Paz Vega
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is. — Jock Sturges
If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions.… — Bella Pollen
I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started… — Jean Plaidy
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your… — Ira Glass
My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to… — Robert B. Laughlin

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