Ambition Quotes

• My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Good
  • Job
  • Ambition

• All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Sense
  • Sins
  • Inferiority

• 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
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Grow Up

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Ambition

• 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
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Hockey

• If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.

  

  Dave Checketts
  • Desire
  • Ambition
  • Guilty

• I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Player
  • Ambition
  • Wanted

• Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Job
  • Small
  • Myself

• As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Leaf

• 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
  • Desire
  • Spy
  • Idealism

• It was the realisation of a lifelong ambition to be the MP for my home town. It was by no means the end of a journey, but rather the beginning of a new chapter both for me and for the people of Batley and Spen.

  

  Jo Cox
  • People
  • Home
  • Beginning

• I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Journey
  • Ambition

• Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Past
  • Fear
  • Present

• 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
  • Bad
  • Parents
  • Fall

• I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• 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
  • World
  • Free
  • Wish

• In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• We will never appear on stage again. There is simply no motivation to re-group. Money is not a factor and we would like people to remember us as we were. Young, exuburent, full of energy and ambition.

  

  Björn Ulvaeus ABBA
  • People
  • Money
  • Remember

• 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
  • Black
  • City
  • Water

• Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Life
  • World
  • Perfect

• Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It's a reminder to stay on top of my game. That's not a place I want to go back to.

  

  Meek Mill
  • Game
  • Ambition

• 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
  • Earth
  • Ambition

• My ambition is limited to capturing something transient.

  

  Berthe Morisot
  • Ambition

• Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Great
  • Fate
  • Luck

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