Ambition Quotes
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My first ambition was to be a show jumper. I did a bit of dressage as part of it, and the dressage trainer saw me and said, 'Why are you wasting your time with the other stuff? You should be concentrating on this.'
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They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.
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We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.
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Was it my lifelong ambition to be in the movie business? No.
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We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.
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The best job a man could have would be a chef. They'd understand the long hours I work and the drive and ambition it takes to succeed.
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Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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Ambition aspires to descend.
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You don't need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.
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I don't want to be obnoxious with my ambition or sound like I expect any sort of entitlement here. Hollywood is not in the business of humoring people.
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My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.
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When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.
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I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.'
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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.
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He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.
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They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.
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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.
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I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.
