Quotes of: Ambition Keyword

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Haruki Murakami

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Henry Van Dyke

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

H. G. Wells

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

Muhammad Iqbal

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.

Venus Williams

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Dave Grohl

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

Charlotte Rampling

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

James F. Cooper

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

Diane Setterfield

From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.

Eleanor Catton

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

Bryant H. McGill

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Gordon B. Hinckley

My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.

John Updike

I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Projet, vision, ambition commune et partagée, autant de termes pour un même objectif.

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My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

David Hasselhoff

Anyone with great ambition, great vision, and great passion can be a great person.

Debasish Mridha

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

Arthur Koestler

Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

Thomas Woods

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld