Ambition Quotes
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!
Philip Schultz
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As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.
A. J. Bowen -
'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 -
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
Kit Williams -
'It's not about money right now. My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
Vernon Howard -
It's not my ambition to be a big star.
Kate Bush
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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 -
My ambition is to get better as an actor.
Ian Mckellen -
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust -
I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.
Ben Whishaw -
I never had an ambition to go into modeling, originally. I still can't believe how quickly it all took off.
Tali Lennox -
You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
Oscar Wilde
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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 -
Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.
Lily Cole -
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Christian Nestell Bovee -
Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?
Nicolas Bouvier -
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Elihu Root -
Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.
Brendon Burchard
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
Gail Sheehy -
I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.
Natalie Massenet -
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.
F. Scott Fitzgerald