Ambition Quotes
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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
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I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.
Carice van Houten
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I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.
Pilou Asbaek
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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
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
Kate Bush
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One day we were in Limerick... and then, a few weeks later, we were being flown around to play. When we started, it was just a hobby. It wasn't any big ambition.
Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
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There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.
Kathleen Kennedy
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If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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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
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And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.
Dorothy Dunnett
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My ambition cannot be stopped!
Cao Cao
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I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
Jeanette Winterson
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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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
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One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
Jessye Norman
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I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.
Jimmy Cliff
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Come purge my soul, Thou Master of my days,Of vain and empty words, of idle ways,Of base ambition and the urge to rule;That hidden serpent that corrupts a fool;and grant me, Lord, to see my sins alone.That I not call my brother to atone;Make chaste my heart and lend me from aboveThy fortitude, humility, and love.
Alexander Pushkin
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My ambition is limited to capturing something transient.
Berthe Morisot
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Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!
Philip Schultz
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To be a tough, rugged boy is every lad’s ambition. But to be a gentleman, to be kindly, charitable, thoughtful as well as tough and rugged is much more to be desired. And he who can be both is much the better man and usually much tougher in the long run.
Nile Kinnick
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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
Vera Farmiga
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I never wanted to be an actress. I didn't have any ambition in that area.
Pattie Boyd