Ambition Quotes
What ambition promises, and what it actually pays out.
This set treats ambition with some skepticism alongside encouragement - one line insists ambition is necessary even without guaranteed success, another calls it avarice dressed up. Related: Goal.
In my younger days, sometimes family and personal life came second to my ambition.
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Winning an official World Cup with the South African team had become my burning ambition.
Dream Quotes
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
Drive Quotes
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
I never thought of breaking a record. The only ambition I had was to become the fastest century maker for India, which I did when I broke Azharuddin's record.
Future Quotes
The opportunity beckoned me to play for England, but I chose Nigeria because it has always been my ambition to play for the Super Eagles.
Prior to having my first child, I had a huge ambition to go into movies and TV.
We need to push. We need to have ambition. We need to have desire to improve every day.
There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.
It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition would be levied and tenure denied. I've seen this first-hand.
Goal Quotes
I think I need another trophy on my list, and I know that Barca's ambition is to win the Champions League. This is my goal, too.
