Explore Quotes on Ambition

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

The one governmental agency that has no ambition.

In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability.

Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.

I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.

It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog - you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.

I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

If you don’t have ambition, you shouldn’t be alive

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.