Quotes of: Personal-ambitions Keyword

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

Doris Day

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

Forrest Gander

The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

Fernando Torres

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

Juliette Binoche

Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

Jimmy Buffett

Potential is an excuse to procrastinate; Ambition is a means to thrive.

Donovan

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Ben Jonson

Always bet on the underdog. They've got ambition and nothing to lose.

Clint Borgen

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

Glenn Howerton

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

Jeanette Winterson

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'

Dino De Laurentiis

Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.

Joe Green

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

James Joyce

If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.

Jahangir Khan

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

Ben Whishaw

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

James Wolcott

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

Persis Khambatta

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

A. C. Benson

American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.

Monica Crowley