Ambition Quotes

• The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build-the thing customers want and will pay for-as quickly as possible. In other words, the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Goal
  • Development
  • Customers

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Honor
  • Ambition
  • Immoderate

• I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.

  

  Heather Bresch
  • Capability
  • Competency
  • Leadership position

• A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

  

  Sean Hampton
  • Dream
  • Car
  • Ambition

• When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.

  

  Andrew Haigh
  • Ambition
  • Films
  • Gay-Themed

• Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humour or Caprice?

  

  George Washington
  • Destiny
  • Prosperity
  • Quitting

• I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage... I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre.

  

  Sasha Roiz
  • Film
  • Theatre
  • Camera

• Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don't think like that. I never have expectations like, 'When I'm 19 I'm going to do this, and by the time I've hit 25 I'm going to do that'. I just take things as they come, each day at a time, and if things happen then all well and good.

  

  Renee Zellweger
  • Ambition
  • Expectations
  • Happen

• We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.

  

  Chittaranjan Das
  • Different
  • Forget
  • Interest

• Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.

  

  Daniel Noonan
  • Ambition
  • Lust

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

  

  Eugene Shvidler
  • Ambition
  • Word
  • Russian

• Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

  

  Theophrastus
  • Remember
  • Dying
  • Glory

• A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice place to live. And a lot of writers who might not geographically reside in New York still point their ambitions towards New York in some sense.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Culture
  • Might
  • Brooklyn

• If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Time
  • Men
  • inspirational

• For a rapper as well-known as Drake, there remains an essential element of mystery about him. For one so open, there's a distance, and he prefers it that way. But then there's something beneath the exterior that reveals itself with urgency in conversation: Drake's raw ambition.

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • Distance
  • Something
  • Conversation

• Being a coach means giving your job 200% all the time and you're family is left on the side so I don't want to risk my family anymore just because I love football. I don't feel this ambition, I'm involved in many businesses and I want to live my own life, to see my daughters grow and want to see my family happy.

  

  Emmanuel Petit
  • Giving
  • Mean
  • Football

• The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

  

  William Feather
  • Ambition
  • Ability
  • Tragedy

• I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Up
  • Work
  • Words

• I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

  

  Michael Learned
  • Ambition
  • Driving
  • Stars

• To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

  

  Norman O. Brown
  • Ambition
  • Remembered
  • Seen

• I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.

  

  Cass Gilbert
  • Night
  • Opportunity
  • Pleasure

• Writing requires maximum ambition, maximum audacity, and programmatic disobedience.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Writing
  • Ambition
  • Audacity

• Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.

  

  Chris Sligh
  • Heart
  • Pride
  • Selfishness

• Such joy ambition finds.

  

  John Milton
  • Joy
  • Ambition
  • Finds

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