Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams. — Dwayne Johnson
Ambition is priceless, its something that's in your veins. — Wale
I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard. — RuPaul
Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be. — William Clark
Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat. — Steven Erikson
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. — Maya Angelou
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed. — Vita Sackville-West
Great accomplishments start with great aspirations. — Gary Hamel
Short Being Ambitious Quotes
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. — William Lilly
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. — Wilfred Owen
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. — Elvis Presley
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. — Henry Ward Beecher
Achievement results from work realizing ambition. — Adam Ant
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. — Sir John Denham
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. — Abraham Lincoln
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy. — Bryant H. McGill
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. — Joseph Joubert
If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances. — Alberto Salazar
Being Ambitious Image Quotes
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Being Too Ambitious Quotes
Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive. — Chris Sharma
In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man. — Ernest Starling
I'm an ambitious person. I mean, if I did that... I would self-destruct, in the sense that the decadence would be too strong an attraction for me. Whether that be in the form of gambling, fast cars, alcohol, drugs, whatever it happens to be... I think the lure of that lifestyle would be too strong. — James Packer
I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star. — Ethan Hawke
Keep your practice very simple and don't be too ambitious. — Tenzin Palmo
Learn not to be too ambitious; not to expect if you have a 9-to-5 job and three kids, that you're likely to get buddhahood in one lifetime. — Tenzin Palmo
Don't be scared to be ambitious. It's not a humiliation to have a high target and to fail. The real humiliation is to have a target and not to give everything to reach it.
They talk about how men are chasers, but women are just like that too. At least a lot of the women that I know, who tend to be ambitious, professionally driven women, they love that. Like seeking something professional that is hard to get, I think they feel the same way about men. — Mindy Kaling
When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious. — Hugh Prather
Make sure it is not too diverse or spread out so people don't know where to go or what to do. So keep a sharp focus. It can be ambitious but should have a small agenda. — Amy Ziering
I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me. — Vincent Gallo
Ambitious Person Quotes
The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied. — Melanie Klein
Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It's a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person. — Ivanka Trump
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. — Maya Angelou
You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love. — Anne Lamott
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing. — Madonna Ciccone
If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left. — Thomas Sowell
I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need. — Jason Isbell
I think time management and dedication are the main factors along with being an organized person. To say I was highly ambitious would be an understatement. I'm never one to sit around, I always have to be creating in various facets to keep myself entertained. — Ashley Purdy
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes. — Jean De La Bruyere
Once the rudiments of loyalty are in place, the ambitious have been inclined to work with them to promote their own political advancement, and they have availed themselves of the symbols of loyalty to mobilize popular support for their own personal ends. — Michael Waller
High Ambition Quotes
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress. — Ellen G. White
When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart. — Ian Curtis
As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed. — Eric Liddell
I finished my junior year of high school and flew out to Los Angeles. I didn't know the difference between a manager and an agent. But I got here and just started hustling and meeting anyone I could. — Jake Paul
We must always set the bar high, otherwise we do not progress. — Kylian Mbappe
I always set my ambitions very high. You want to be the greatest athlete, but I realized that life is not about that. I was a little bit blind. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. — E. O. Wilson
It’s just the game itself that drives me. I just want to be able to compete at a high level. — Kawhi Leonard
I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million - a gamble for high stakes. — Roman Polanski
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles. — Karl von Clausewitz
The ambitious man has never found his true vocation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy. — Bobby Flay
A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed. — Joseph Brodsky
Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate. — Ayn Rand
If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. — C. S. Lewis
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. — Arthur Keith
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator? — Marsilio Ficino
We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't. — Bear Bryant
I never heard the expression, "A strong man," unless somebody was in the gym lifting a heavy barbell. Why is there a difference between being an ambitious, driven woman or passionate woman and a passionate man? That is something that has come up a lot. — Megan Griffiths
Ambition Quotes
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. — Mark Twain
Be realistic, demand the impossible! — Che Guevara
Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition. — Immortal Technique
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. — Timothy Leary
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. — Cesar Chavez
Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense. — Alexander Hamilton
I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. — Bhagat Singh
True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God. — Bill W.
We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination. — Hassan al-Banna
Great Ambition Quotes
By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition. — J. K. Rowling
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. — Angus Grossart
When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations. — John Stott
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. — Mark Twain
Believe this: Everything you need to be great is already inside you. All your ambitions and secrets, your darkest dreams . . . they’re waiting for you to just let go. — Tim Grover
Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that’s the foundation for everything great. — Jay-Z
Always make your future bigger than your past. — Dan Sullivan
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When people are inspired, they achieve more than they ever thought possible. — Michael Abrashoff
Dream big. There is nothing seen that wasn’t imagined. There’s no overnight success. You have to start by dreaming big and working towards your goal. — Folorunsho Alakija
Too Ambitious Quotes
A lot of people these days are too ambitious; their sights are set too high at the start and they end up diving in too deep, quitting their day job too soon. They move to Vegas or wherever, make an all-or-nothing commitment before they're ready, and burn out. — Phil Ivey
Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid. — John Green
But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie. — Robert Towne
I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses. — Rose Byrne
Cinema is haute couture or, if that's a little too ambitious, at least it should approach that standard. Pathe Plus is just part of the business. We have to improve all our cinemas. In France, we're not looking to open many more screens, but rather to raise the standards of our current cinemas. — Jerome Seydoux
I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise. — Norman Lock
[ Marco Rubio] overly ambitious, too young, and I have better hair than he does. — Jeb Bush
Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret. — Charles Darwin
Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself. — Hannah Arendt
If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too. — Judith Viorst
Life Ambition Quotes
What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God. — J. Vernon McGee
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. — Epicurus
Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. — George Jung
Being the best means engineering your life so you never stop until you get what you want, and then you keep going until you get what’s next. And then you go for even more. — Tim Grover
I want the finer things in my life, so I hustle. — 50 Cent
My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list. — Leonard Ravenhill
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that. — Tobey Maguire
I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be. — Folorunsho Alakija
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. — Yann Martel
I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth. — Oliver Reed
Ambitions And Dreams Quotes
If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there will be no regrets. — Bessie Coleman
Believe in your dreams and work hard to make them a reality. You have the power to create your own future. — Edward Barber
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams. — Benjamin Carson
More than my dream it was my family’s dream that I play for India and they always supported me. — Smriti Mandhana
Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is. — Lisa Manoban
If you trust in yourself and fight for it until the end, your dreams will come true. — Lisa Manoban
I once dared to dream and if I could succeed, then so can you! — Folorunsho Alakija
Dream as big as you want to, and never apologize for it. — MrBeast
When I was young and I could dream a bit, I could see myself participating in the slam dunk contest. I’ve always wanted to experience that. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
I go to bed dreaming, thinking that I want to be the best in the octagon and be a champion. — Valentina Shevchenko
A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. — David Brainerd
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself. — Robert Solow
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. — Arnold J. Toynbee
I have no ambition for what society says is important as far as things like money, and all that kind of stuff. What I am ambitious about is I want to be the best wrestler that I can possibly be, and I think there's some sort of mistake in generations, as far as what he thinks as far as our generation lacking ambition. — Daniel Bryan
I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price. — Malcolm Turnbull
Expressing the matter, in such startling terms, makes it easy to see why philosophers from ancient Greece to the present have taken the brevity of life to be the defining problem of human existence. We’ve been granted the mental capacity to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, but practically no time at all to put them into action. — Oliver Burkeman
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs. — Henry David Thoreau
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading. — Amy Poehler
I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that... it'd be that Don Quixote feeling, that I'd have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you've got to do it. That's the only way you can do things. — Oliver Stone
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. — Fisher Ames
Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie. — John Lahr
I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life. — Robert Plant
I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong. — Stuart Pearson Wright
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm . . . But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity. — James Madison
I used to be very ambitious. But reality taught me that ambition won't get you everything you want. You need more than just passion and hope. It's important to do what I'm good at and suits me. — Seungri
It was special with me being from Memphis and knowing the history of the venue, knowing all of the artists who performed in the Orpheum before me. Even having the idea to approach it was ambitious on my part, but I thought they would turn me down at first. — Yo Gotti
Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying! — Bruce Lee
I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I’m not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. No compromises, let’s put it this way. Compromises are from hell. — Mads Mikkelsen
I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change. — Reese Witherspoon
A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are. — Matthew Henry
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. — Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery. — David Hume
Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious. — Francis Quarles
PSG is an ambitious club that wants to be the best in the world. So you have to win all the competitions and leave no room for doubt. — Kylian Mbappe
Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction. — Srikumar Rao
I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things. — Jonny Greenwood
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. — Baruch Spinoza
You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious. — Roxane Gay
To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was. — Chantal Kreviazuk
Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working. — John C. Maxwell
To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. — Alexander Hamilton
Being innovative in your philantropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world. — Theodor Herzl
We have now reached a level where we should be even more ambitious. We should focus on more tangible mechanisms and outcomes. Make BRICS a platform of Impact. — Narendra Modi
I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious. — Ronda Rousey
Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal. — Ban Ki-moon
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