Ambition Quotes
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We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.
Karl-Johan Persson -
Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.
Ha-Joon Chang
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I never wanted to be an actress. I didn't have any ambition in that area.
Pattie Boyd -
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
Alfred P. Sloan -
And heaven had wanted one immortal song.But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
John Dryden -
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
Quintilian -
How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
Tamra Davis -
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
Charles Baudelaire
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My ambition cannot be stopped!
Cao Cao -
The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
Fernando Torres -
I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.
John Lithgow -
We need a national ambition to build hundreds of thousands of new homes a year, both private and socially-rented - led by someone who will not take no for an answer and who will push for diggers in the ground and homes for all come what may.
Michael Gove -
Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
Vera Farmiga -
When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.
Robert Winston
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My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.
Yogi Berra -
The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
Fernando Torres -
I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
Ian Fleming -
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
Walter Kirn -
I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.
Jane Pauley -
Already London is the biggest centre for Islamic finance outside the Islamic world. But today our ambition is to go further still. Because I don’t just want London to be a great capital of Islamic finance in the Western world. I want London to stand alongside Dubai and Kuala Lumpur as one of the great capitals of Islamic finance anywhere in the world.
David Cameron
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'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
Mal Peet -
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 -
I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.
Ian Gillan -
Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!
Philip Schultz