Ambition Quotes

• Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Action
  • Ambition

• 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 my mind.

  

  Alex Flinn
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • College

• Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • War
  • Virtue

• A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Value
  • Leaving
  • Ambitious

• I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Life
  • Family
  • Desire

• This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

  

  James L. Buckley
  • Ambition

• My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Ambition

• It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never choked off my writing by competing with myself, or with anybody else for that matter. My ambition was absolutely centered on the work itself, never on what it would bring me, or "who" it would make me. I never cared about that at all.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Done

• It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

  

  O. Henry
  • Men
  • Food
  • Dark

• A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Point
  • Dreamer

• Jenny, all my life I have wanted to do miracles. I have wanted to be holy. I suppose it was ambition or pride or some other unworthy thing. It was not enough for me to conquer the world--I wanted to conquer heaven too.

  

  T. H. White
  • Life
  • World
  • Heaven

• At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I happen to think that as the Ukraine moves to the West, towards the E.U., eventually towards NATO, it will pave the way also for Russia moving towards the West. Because it will become a logical extension of the same process, and it will eliminate any imperial ambitions.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Ambition

• If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Life
  • Legacy
  • Motivated

• You cannot teach ambition.

  

  Amy Chan
  • Ambition
  • Teach

• I dont even think in terms of ambition.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Thinking
  • Ambition
  • Term

• Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.

  

  John Caudwell
  • Done
  • Ambition

• All sporting ambition considered, there should always be a relationship to Germany.

  

  Oliver Bierhoff
  • Relationship
  • Should
  • Germany

• Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like making the puzzle or whatever, then my ambition changed, and I thought, 'Now I want to be a good writer.' And that became my ambition.

  

  Ariel Levy
  • Good
  • Ambition

• With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

  

  Azim Premji
  • People
  • Attention
  • Ambition

• Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Winning
  • Modesty

• Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Passion
  • Ambition

• I think all musicians and producers, they know the real goal is to come up with a record that is entertaining and not boring, that's the goal. I think if everyone agrees that that's the goal then it doesn't matter who's the band and it doesn't matter who's the producer. It just means that that you try to realise the ambition no matter what the situation is or who the people are.

  

  Black Francis Pixies
  • Goal
  • Record
  • Musicians

• I realized then what I had known since I was a child watching my mother die of cancer-namely, that beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotion, there was only pain. And salvation from it.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Mother
  • Die
  • Pain

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