Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before. — Peter Carey
We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness. — Heather Donahue
I've always had high ambitions and aspirations. — James Dashner
But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm,… — Sam Donaldson
I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars. — Lou Ferrigno
From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about… — Louise Fletcher
I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my mouth and no… — Evan Glodell
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words… — Peter Ackroyd
When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap… — Peter Ackroyd
There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating… — Michael Ealy
Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from… — Alex Flinn
Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition. — Coolio
He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing… — Thomas B. Macaulay
I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission. — Pete Townshend
Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition,… — Gerald M. Loeb
As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to… — Jarvis Cocker
I had no ambition to become an actor at all. — Danny Huston
You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated… — Dhani Harrison
The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition. — Nicole Krauss
Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me. — Alex Kapranos
Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me. — Carmen Kass
[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Henri Poincare
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow… — Billie Burke
I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories, that is my… — Stana Katic
A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy. — Fisher Ames

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