Ambition Quotes
-
The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.
-
I guess I don't have the cut-throat ambition that some other actresses have. I don't know how good that is for my career, but I know how good that is for me as a person. And to me, that's much more important.
-
Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.
-
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?
-
The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable in it are diligence, discipline, ambition, and a willingness to take risks. Education and credentials are most important in government; elsewhere most skills are learned on the job.
-
Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.
-
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
-
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
-
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
-
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.
-
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
-
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
-
Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
-
Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In this wilderness cries the voice of Patrick White, Australian extraordinary, who has quite other, more austere and indeed prophetic ambitions. (...) (H)is failures are certainly the equivalent, and perhaps the measure, of other men's success.
-
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
-
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.
-
I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.
-
That was our whole ambition was to become songwriters and get a publishing deal. So music has always been a part of my life.
-
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
-
It's sad, because he just doesn't have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter — which should be enough but doesn't seem to be enough in this case.
-
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.
-
Once we take our eyes away from ourselves, from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions - then they will become clear to see Jesus around us.
-
A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
-
My ambition has always been to work with English and American actors and directors. Those were the movies that I was watching when I was growing up.
