Ambition Quotes

• Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Men
  • Action
  • Violence

• My ambition cannot be stopped!

  

  Cao Cao
  • Ambition
  • Stopped

• Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Power
  • Rest
  • Name

• In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Attitude
  • Ambition

• 'It's not about money right now. My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Music
  • Money
  • Ambition

• It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Film
  • Animation
  • My Ambition

• I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man.

  

  Diego Della Valle
  • Great
  • Family
  • Business

• Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a film opportunity came up, but it's a unique place, and you can reach saturation point. For me it was a place where creative desire and ambition meets desperation. It's in the air; it's palpable - I just didn't want to be around that.

  

  Darren Boyd
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Desire

• Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.

  

  Brendon Burchard
  • Ambition

• Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Ugly
  • Kicking
  • Gucci

• Can't is the word that is foe to ambition,An enemy ambushed to shatter your will;Its prey is forever the man with a missionAnd bows but to courage and patience and skill.Hate it, with hatred that's deep and undying,For once it is welcomed 'twill break any man;Whatever the goal you are seeking, keep tryingAnd answer this demon by saying: 'I can.'

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Hate
  • Forever
  • Deep

• As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Value

• I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count with a swim in the men's pond. It's an ambition of mine to swim in the ponds on every day of the year.

  

  Bertie Carvel
  • Time
  • Men
  • Live

• The vague torment of ... ambition.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Ambition
  • Torment
  • Vague

• I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Good
  • Team
  • Player

• I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.

  

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers
  • Ambition

• For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Desire
  • Problem
  • Waiting

• I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

  

  John Milton
  • Ambition
  • Deeds
  • Commend

• You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

  

  Kit Williams
  • World
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, and after that, I went through everything from wanting to be a Prime Minister to an air hostess, but never an actor. So I became one, and it was a great journey. I learnt a lot, worked very hard.

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Air

• I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Long
  • Why
  • Collaboration

• The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our solar system: Mars. I firmly believe we will establish permanence on that planet. And in reaching for that goal, we can cultivate commercial development of the moon, the asteroid belt, the Red Planet itself and beyond.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Future

• I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Journalism

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