Ambition Quotes
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Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
Bob Riley
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In terms of being able to renew my nation, to be able to be able to bring back a devastated country, to restore hope to our people, to lift women and to give them a new horizon, a new ambition and new dreams, in respect of all of that, I think we've accomplished it, and I feel very good about that.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.
Max Lerner
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It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
Taron Egerton
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As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
Hamid Karzai
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese
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My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
Pancho Villa
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
Gayle Forman
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I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.
Imran Khan
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I am the product of hustlers who taught me how to do it. They gave me a hustler's ambition. Not a bad thing to get from your parents. But hustling only gets you so far. You have to trust yourself. And you have to be ready to fall on your face and be okay when it happens.
Jay Pharoah
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
Tallulah Bankhead
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
Octavia E. Butler
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Pearl Bailey
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I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.
Jason Priestley
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
Fergus Henderson
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Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
C. S. Lewis
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.
William Gilmore Simms
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The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.
Jack Kirby
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'Titanic' made me want to tell stories... To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams... It came at a very troubled period of my life.
Xavier Dolan
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There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty of the people, call it what you will - a doge, an avoyer, an archon, a president, a consul, a syndic; this becomes at once an object of ambition and dispute, and, in time, of division, faction, sedition, and rebellion.
John Adams
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My role at the USTA allows me to fulfill my ambition to open up opportunities for people to play tennis that may not otherwise have a chance or an outlet to play.
Katrina Adams
