Ambition Quotes

• The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Time
  • Love
  • Fame

• I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Ambition

• Pride went before, ambition follows him.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Pride
  • Ambition

• Valuing time with your family does not mean you've lost your ambition. Define success for yourself.

  

  Claire Shipman
  • Family
  • Success
  • Define

• My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • World
  • Real
  • Together

• There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

  

  Neil Kinnock
  • Time
  • Ambition

• Bullies will attack your confidence, but you cannot let them kill your ambition.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Confidence
  • Will
  • Attack

• Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.

  

  John McCain
  • Ambition

• What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Power
  • Sex
  • Drama

• Ambition:

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Ambition

• If I can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition I have is nothing but talk! Luffy must be the man who becomes the Pirate King!

  

  Eiichiro Oda
  • Dream
  • King
  • Protect

• I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.

  

  Saul Leiter
  • People
  • World
  • Artist

• A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Country
  • Circumstances
  • Familiar

• A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

  

  Steven Brust
  • Man
  • Ambition
  • Old

• My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Scriptures
  • Self-realisation

• I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

  

  Eva Gabor
  • Happy
  • Smart
  • Ambition

• The reason to go public is that it is a massive branding, marketing, credibility, trust-building exercise with your customers, and then it allows you to consolidate power and scale and market share. Do we want to be a huge company with a huge impact? If the answer to that is yes, the only way that that happens is by going public. It is effectively a branding event that catalyzes interest. It helps with recruiting, it helps with marketing, it helps with sales. It just helps on many dimensions. I think it's basically a litmus test for the CEO's ambition.

  

  Chamath Palihapitiya
  • Reason
  • Exercise
  • Helping

• For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

  

  William Styron
  • Writing
  • College
  • Sophomore

• The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Attention
  • Ambition

• I've always had the ambition to win a lot of trophies.

  

  Riyad Mahrez
  • Win
  • Ambition
  • Trophies

• The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.

  

  Catherine Ingram
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Art

• I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Ambition
  • Sign
  • Baseball Player

• Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Race
  • Competitors
  • Emulation

• In Russian, ambition is a bad word. It's arrogant.

  

  Eugene Shvidler
  • Ambition
  • Word
  • Russian

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