Quotes of: Personal-ambitions Keyword

My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.

James Nesbitt

As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.

Dana Hussein

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

Johann Lamont

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Walter Savage Landor

In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.

John Caudwell

Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

Sheryl Sandberg

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Ambrose Bierce

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.

Ashley Greene

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

Amah Lambert

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

Beau Willimon

Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.

Life

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

Van Morrison

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Wilson Mizner

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

Wilfred Owen

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say, 'We're sorry we did it,' that would be nice. But...

Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in any form, who have converted the very meaning of ambition so totally that it now registers as an act of disdain, a hostility to the poor common reade...

Ben Marcus

...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.

Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams

I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.

The Diary of a Country Priest

There are thousands of other women to choose from. You understand me? And this court runs on ambition alone.

Fury of the Phoenix

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

Graceling

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Alfred North Whitehead