Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious! — Freeman Dyson
Aim High, Drive hard. — Donald Trump
A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself. — Pema Chodron
Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner. — Sam Abell
For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great. — Johnny Depp
It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film. — Paul McCartney
One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is… — Joshua Reynolds
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who… — Joshua Reynolds
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the… — Raymond Williams
If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it! — Werner Herzog
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study… — Jackson Pollock
There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth. — Tim Ferriss
It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw,… — Philip Guston
I always wonder what drives us as Artists. — Diana Krall
Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds… — Jeffrey Kluger
We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's… — Pierre Pettigrew
I believe that no matter how many mistakes weÂ’ve made; how badly weÂ’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected weÂ’ve become;… — Dave Pelzer
I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition… — Loretta Young
As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly. — Justin Hayward
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding… — Walter J. Phillips
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist? — Eric Maisel
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air. — Walter Darby Bannard
I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up. — Robert Bateman
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. — Edgar Quinet
I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history,… — Theodore Roosevelt

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