Quotes of: Personal-ambitions Keyword

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Vincent Van Gogh

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

Adrian Grenier

Spending time with people without ambition is a self-destruction.

Amen Muffler

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Willa Cather

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

William Feather

Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.

William Shakespeare

If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work.

Heber J. Grant

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.

Joe Rogan

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

Romola Garai

Caring for others tends to be the first cut when we review our personal time budget. It does not necessarily fulfill the goals of my ambition; it will not pave the way for my success; it takes away from my own depleted emotional resources. It is an i...

Bare: The Misplaced Art of Grieving and Dancing

Millions call themselves by His name, it is true, and pay some token homage to Him, but a simple test will show how little He is really honored among them. Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who or what is ABOVE, and his true ...

The Pursuit of God

It's so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way.

Brunette Ambition

My ambition is as deep as your pockets. I’m an aspiring politician. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Herman Melville

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

Peter Straub

What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?

Pete Wentz

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Tim Burton

Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going.

Lynette Fromme

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Lawrence Welk

To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.

Michael Keaton