Ambition Quotes

• In the great court, surrounded by broken-down droshkies and the skeletons of German motor-buses, we spread our sleeping-bags on the oily ground beside our vehicle. For the first time since leaving Istanbul we had achieved Hugh’s ambition to sleep ‘under the stars’.

  

  Eric Newby
  • Stars
  • Achieved
  • Vehicle

• Women don't necessarily understand that it is possible to have the same level of ambition as men - they allow themselves to be held back by the obstacles rather than empowered by the possibilities.

  

  Heather Bresch
  • Men
  • Women
  • Obstacles

• You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • Kind
  • Goal
  • Missing

• I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

  

  Bradley Joseph
  • Desire
  • Competition
  • Ambition

• Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I got my first saxophone, a Selmer. It was a strange Bakelite material - that creamy plastic with all the gold keys on it. I had to get a job as a butcher's delivery boy to start paying for it.

  

  David Bowie
  • Player
  • Ambition
  • Boys

• Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Money
  • Ambition
  • Slaves

• All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Success
  • Individual

• It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?

  

  William Shenstone
  • Long
  • Passion
  • Choices

• Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

  

  William Feather
  • Hands
  • Jobs
  • Sight

• All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

  

  Charles Cotton
  • Spring
  • Blessing
  • Profit

• 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

• We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Responsibility

• If you’re calling her a floozy, I’m by way of being a bit of a floozy myself.” “Oh, Jared,” said Kami, who was well aware of his romantic experience, or total lack thereof. “You are not.” “Well, I have floozy ambitions.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Way
  • Said
  • Wells

• When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition to achieve that goal!

  

  Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
  • Hope
  • Goal
  • Ambition

• The difference between a confident person and an unconfident person is simply that the confident person acts on their ambitions and desires and doesn’t let fear of failure stop them.

  

  Katty Kay
  • Desire
  • Persons
  • Differences

• 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 don't have any ambition.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Ambition

• In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Ambition
  • Ashamed

• Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Fear
  • Religious
  • Influence

• Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character.

  

  Edward Bates
  • Character
  • Passion
  • Happiness

• Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.

  

  Daniel Noonan
  • Ambition
  • Lust

• Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Ambition

• I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

  

  Michael Birch
  • Want
  • Running
  • Starting

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