Ambition Quotes
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We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.
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I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.
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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.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.
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My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.
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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.
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Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
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I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
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I never wanted to be an actress. I didn't have any ambition in that area.
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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.
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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.
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I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.
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Life is good. I've got a apartment that is paid for with rap money. It's good. It's amazing. It's a blessing. I wake up every day and appreciate how much of a blessing this is getting to do this. But it is important to always stay humble, grounded, focused, and maintain that same ambition you had when you had nothing.
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
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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.
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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.
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But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!
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I would like to win the Ballon d'Or for women. But every top professional should have that ambition.
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One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
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'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
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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.
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If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.
