Ambition Quotes
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Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
David Hume
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I never wanted to be an actress. I didn't have any ambition in that area.
Pattie Boyd
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If you don’t have ambition, you shouldn’t be alive.
Aliko Dangote
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'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
Mal Peet
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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
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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.
Fernando Torres
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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.
Elihu Root
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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.
Samuel Dash
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My ambition is to get better as an actor.
Ian Mckellen
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I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.
Jeremy Irons
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Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a film opportunity came up, but it's a unique place, and you can reach saturation point. For me it was a place where creative desire and ambition meets desperation. It's in the air; it's palpable - I just didn't want to be around that.
Darren Boyd
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We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.
Heather Donahue
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'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
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Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.
Arthur Desmond
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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
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I've been producing records, and as early as my late teens, early 20s, I put out a hip-hop record and then the Ringside stuff. You know, I just feel like I want to spend these years realizing all of my ambitions. I feel like we live in an age in which you can chase your dreams with focus and a vision.
Balthazar Getty
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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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For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
Vernon Howard
