Ambition Quotes - Page 3

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

Trying to be more than human one becomes less.

At the end of the day let there be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

Somewhere between what is...and what can be...begs the question...what are you meant to be?

Manoj Vaz

Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent.

Always stay one step a head, unless you’re already there

Benny Bellamacina

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.

And the next time I did school stuff in the middle of the night, I just did it in my closet with the door locked. Honestly, what is wrong with this country when striving for excellence means you need antidepressants?

She knows about the music stuff, but she doesn't care. That's why I didn't tell her about my job at the studio. She doesn't want make me want to be better, like you do. She doesn't get that it's scary... to want something so much and not be sure if you're good enough.

What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.

Self-confidence is your greatest virtue.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Ambition is not everything.""No. Not everything, but it's something. Something important, if you ask me.

Tiffany Quay Tyson

. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been.

David Halberstam

My mind was not that of a conqueror, but that of a cow that spends its life chewing contentedly in the meadow of invoices, waiting for the train of eternal grace to pass by. How good it felt to exist without pride of ambition. To live in hibernation.

Amélie Nothomb

He hated House members who longed only to run for the Senate, and senators who longed only to run for the presidency. He was appalled by what he felt television had done to the Senate by the mid-fifties. It had become a major launching platform for presidential campaigns. He thought television had ruined the Senate as a serious body. “All they do there is preen and comb their hair and run for President. It’s like a presidential primary over there,

David Halberstam

At the end, we will arrive where we started.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

There is no friendship between kings.

Embrace the beauty of good moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'.

The only candid thing in life is time, nothing else flows seamlessly

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well try what you do want.

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?

So you mean to tell me you won't fuck anyone you don't share some kind of deep emotional connection with? What a sad, depressing, truly horrible life you must lead...

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

Giovanni Boccaccio

Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

Peace is the first casualty in every ambition.

You are always a bishop with a ambition and second as a fisher.

In fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of contraction emotionally and physically. It seems to give us energy but doesn't really. Like the white sugar of mental health, there's a short high followed by a crash. The cultivation of mental rest or surrender is like eating healthy food. It doesn’t give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy.

Marianne Williamson

If I keep pushing myself, I’ll finally be somebody. I’ll finally matter. I’ll finally arrive.” Nonsense. You won’t be satisfied. The only thing worse than failing to realize any of your dreams, is seeing them all come true. You were meant for something more. Even if you could be known the world over, what does it matter if you have no time to be known by God?

Give your ambition a name.

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

A dreamless sleep and a life without ambition are synonymous with death.

Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue…as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.

Viktor E. Frankl

If you can't get everyone on your side, make sure they're right behind you.

Benny Bellamacina

Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers — ambition and indigestion.

Herman Melville

Have you ever had an experience where, had things turned out just a little bit differently, your entire life would have been transformed?Like a Supreme Court clerkship, a Rhodes Scholarship gets mentioned in your obituary.The door was open just a crack, in a way that seemed to say “I have an ‘open door’ policy, but I really don’t want to be bothered.”Success didn’t take you off the treadmill, but simply put you on a different treadmill, at a higher speed and with a steeper incline.When we’re young, overachieving, and unstoppable, we all think we’re special. But as we grow older, we reach a more realistic understanding of our place in the world. It happens at different times for different people, but eventually we all come to terms with our own ordinariness.

David Lat

Your ambition is the most reliable alarm clock.

There is nothing in the world so enticing as that which you have been told you may not have.

Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie

The world’s deadliest mercenaries choose to serve you, the whispers say, because they have yet to meet me.

Marie Lu

In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.

John Taliaferro

Ambition is the intellectual equivalent of body odour.

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

Success comes only through strong will, determination and effort.

Santonu Kumar Dhar

Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?

William Hundert - The Emperors Club

Self-reliance and self-learning are your greatest assets.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When the right stage gets missing, true talent that can grow to inspire, nurture and change lives least gets the right stage to manifest; real deft and dexterity remains latent and people only die with their dreams, abilities and capabilities.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I have heard many a young unmarried lady exclaim with a bold sweep of conception, “Ah me! I wish I were a widow!” Mrs. Keith was precisely the widow that young unmarried ladies wish to be. With her diamonds in her dressing-case and her carriage in her stable, and without a feather’s weight of encumbrance, she offered a finished example of satisfied ambition.

I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday.

...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely that you will become a great man -- if only you remain a little child. All the world'sgreat have been little boys who wanted the moon; running and climbing, they sometimes catch a firefly. But if one grow to a man's mind, that mind must see that it cannot have the moon and would not want it if it could -- and so, it catches no fireflies.' [Merlin]

Richard, marked for misery and defeat, acknowledged that power which sentiment possesses to exalt us—to convince us that our minds, endowed with a soaring, restless aspiration, can find no repose on earth except in love.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.

Napoléon Bonaparte

You know, you the worst kind, you want to marry the artist and live like squalor, but you wait, in five years you be like, Baby Jake why we eat ramen noodles every night? You a hustler, don't blind me, I see.

Stephanie Danler

My only career goal is to be an halloween icon.

The tonality of my life is hidden behind my ambition.

Emperor, king, general, duke,” he whispered to himself. “These are just labels. Climb up the family tree of any of them high enough and you’ll find a commoner who dared to take a chance.

Ken Liu

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