Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me… — Mark Twain
Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The difference between a confident person and an unconfident person is simply that the confident person acts on their ambitions and desires and doesn’t let… — Katty Kay
The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang. — H. Rider Haggard
The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative… — Criss Jami
It was always a wish for me to work in the Premier League. To work as a manager for Manchester United, the biggest club in… — Louis van Gaal
To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed. — Marie Bashkirtseff
I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions. — Vagit Alekperov
It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you. — Roger Staubach
I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny… — Michael Lindsay-Hogg
In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since… — Peter York
My one ambition is to play a hero. — Sessue Hayakawa
It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions. — Vernon Howard
Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for… — Lucy Walker
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush. — Robert Breault
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. — Alphonse de Lamartine
Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong. — Vita Sackville-West
Pride went before, ambition follows him. — William Shakespeare
I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph. — Otto von Bismarck
The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality call to him,… — Ibn Ata Allah
I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying… — Lindsey Graham
I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition. — David Brooks
Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy… — Robert Reich
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful. — Thomas A. Edison
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices… — Seneca the Younger

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