What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die. — Jean-Luc Godard
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. — Abraham Lincoln
Ambition is priceless, its something that's in your veins. — Wale
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A person can have a lot of aspirations but the most important one should be about the motherland and people. This is the anchor of all concrete aspirations and the backbone of life. — Xi Jinping
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. — Jim Henson
Achievement results from work realizing ambition. — Adam Ant
Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician. — Tupac Shakur
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. — Angus Grossart
A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding. — Jackie Kennedy
If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. — Rich Mullins
My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list. — Leonard Ravenhill
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. — Elvis Presley
My dream is to do things until 'I have no regrets' — Lee Taemin
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. — Maya Angelou
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good. — Adam Smith
Our aspirations are our possibilities. — Robert Browning
Life Ambition Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
My Ambition In Life Quotes
I want the finer things in my life, so I hustle. — 50 Cent
The only thing I have is a burning desire to do something worthwhile with my life. I wake up every morning with love in my heart and fire in my belly. — Chatri Sityodtong
I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer. — Paul Pogba
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal. — Bette Davis
Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition. — Tallulah Bankhead
In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance. — Irene Gut Opdyke
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know. — Frank Sinatra
My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans. — Karl Lagerfeld
When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited . — Kirk Kerkorian
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. — Mos Def
Life Without Ambition Quotes
What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun? — Pete Wentz
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch. — Rebecca Wells
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me. — Daniel Mainwaring
I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope. — Kyra Davis
If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of sex, the hope of ambition, friendship-all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant. — M. Scott Peck
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering. — Alfred Wainwright
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan. — Alexander Pope
Future Ambition Quotes
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. — Ulysses S. Grant
My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future. — Franz Liszt
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Believe in your dreams and work hard to make them a reality. You have the power to create your own future. — Edward Barber
Always make your future bigger than your past. — Dan Sullivan
I immediately loved flying from my first flight and knew that in some way it was going to be a part of my future career! — Fred Haise
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
It was our duty to expand. Those who cannot or will not join us are to be pitied. What we want to do, we can do and will do, together. A glorious future! — Ingvar Kamprad
I am not sure what the future holds for me personally, but I envision myself continuing to work on spaceflight programs. — Peggy Whitson
If we’re dating, I want to be your second priority. I want your first priority to be you, your ambitions, your life, and your future because my priority right now is me and mine. Finding happiness and security alone is crucial to finding it together. — Steven Bartlett
What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music. — Gloria Steinem
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
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
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
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
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
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.
I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success. — Sarah Emma Edmonds
Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. — George Jung
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions. Macedon is too small for you. — Philip II of Macedon
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
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
I want to be the biggest entertainer in the world. That's my deal. I'll do whatever it takes to get that. — Logan Paul
If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there will be no regrets. — Bessie Coleman
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. — Salvador Dali
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. — Anatoli Boukreev
Ambitions And Dreams Quotes
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
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
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
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
High Ambition Quotes
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
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
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
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
We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness. — Tommy Douglas
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them. — Eminem
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. — Sivananda
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. — Albert Einstein
I want to make money so later on in life I can do big things. — MrBeast
Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams. — Pope John XXIII
To move forward in life, it's always helpful to honestly acknowledge where you are right now, rather than where you used to be or aspire to be in the future. — Rangan Chatterjee
We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't. — Alex Gaskarth
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential. — Pope John XXIII
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team. — Jim Harbaugh
My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine. — Jhene Aiko
Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal. — Rick Ross
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. — John Dewey
In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning. — T. B. Joshua
The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love. — Ramakrishna
Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smoldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment, Moscow is less than twenty miles away. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. — Svetlana Alliluyeva
Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel. — James Callis
We have now an American political party and a European one. Not all Americans who vote for the European party want to become Europeans. But it doesn't matter because that's what they're voting for. They're voting for dependency, for lack of ambition, and for insolvency. — Harvey Mansfield
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite. — Edmund Burke
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
My political ambition
is not worth the blood of any Nigerian — Goodluck Jonathan
A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years. — Fethullah Gulen
... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred. — Louise Bogan
I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my heart is being able to gain God's good pleasure and, therefore, trying to make him known correctly and loved by humanity. — Fethullah Gulen
Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative. — John W. Davis
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 is good. I've got a apartment that is paid for with rap money. It's good. It's amazing. It's a blessing. I wake up every day and appreciate how much of a blessing this is getting to do this. But it is important to always stay humble, grounded, focused, and maintain that same ambition you had when you had nothing. — G-Eazy
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible. — R. A. Torrey
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
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
Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you. — Roy T. Bennett
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
Goals give us purpose, which, in turn, motivates us to make ourselves the best version in all aspects of your life. — Hannah Bronfman
If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen. — Chuck Norris
Life is too short to settle for anything less than what you deserve. — Joe Rogan
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits. — Pythagoras
The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition. — John D. Rockefeller
Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly. — Pancho Villa
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. — Albert Einstein
Be a warrior. It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down in life as long as you always get back up to fight for your dreams. — Chatri Sityodtong
Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once. — Mark Victor Hansen
I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers. .. Pursue this life of love with focus and passion and ambition and courage. Give it your all. And that will be your path to true success. — John Legend
Being determined to make a change has been a catalyst for most of my adult life. — Micky Watkins
I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition. — Michael Jackson
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. — Muhammad Iqbal
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. — Sai Baba
I really don’t look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don’t know their story. — Cardi B
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life. — Vance Havner
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. — Marquis De Sade
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. — Barack Obama
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