Quotes of: Ambition Keyword

There are two ways of spreading light to be candle,or the mirror that reflects it.

Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition

Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.

The Twelve Rooms of the Nile

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.

Burton Cummings

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

Rob Morrow

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Hilary Mantel

Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

Natalie Massenet

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

Joseph Conrad

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

Oliver Herford

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Peter Carey

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

Ted Baillieu

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

Tony Fernandes

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

Taiye Selasi

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Lady Gaga

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

Michael Eric Dyson

The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.

Marc Fitten

Without a vision to guide our path, and without ambition that knows no limits, we can never build a bright future for generations to come.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

Mary Shelley

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

Mark Twain

Relax your fears, let your ambition take the wheel for a while; it'll take you somewhere exciting that you've never been.

Noel DeJesus