Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere, — Herbert Hoover
I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on. — Geoffrey Boycott
We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do… — Gordon B. Hinckley
One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and themselves. If she… — Thomas S. Monson
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this,… — Blaise Pascal
There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace… — Tory Burch
Life will get in the way. Count on it. Be prepared for it. Maintain focus and press on towards your goal. — Robert Kiyosaki
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and… — George Washington
I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven. — Harry Styles
You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic. — Zig Ziglar
The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I'm benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to… — James Nachtwey
The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to… — David Herbert Donald
The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desire is what we aspire to… — Anuj
Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing… — Greg Brown
I love the youth of the Church. I have said again and again that I think we have never had a better generation than this.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road… — John W. Davis
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books… — Saint Augustine
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it. — Baltasar Gracian
Ambition has no rest. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable. — Walker Percy
Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that. — Miranda Kerr
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral… — Lajos Kossuth

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