ambition Quotes

Bullies will attack your confidence, but you cannot let them kill your ambition.

My ambition is to sit behind a desk and work.

If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.

I didn't have any ambition to be president. It was fate. The people found me.

I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money.

The passionate fans they have and also the ambition of the manager and the chairman. It was an easy descion to choose West Ham. London is also closer to my wife's side of the family - so provided her more help to raise the kids. Everything made sense and I'm extremely happy.

I don't want to be obnoxious with my ambition or sound like I expect any sort of entitlement here. Hollywood is not in the business of humoring people.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.

I don't think I focused on the financial part of it, but definitely, my ambition is to be great, and that always meant that the sky was the limit for what I was hoping to do.

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

We've set this forever ambition to make WeWork the best place.

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

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.

I think it's a mistake to think, 'Am I going to write a young adult book, or do I desperately want to write a book for adults?' I think the better ambition is to try to write someone's favorite book, because those categorizations of adult, young adult, become kind of superfluous.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

I have ambition and drive, and I'm passionate about the fashion industry.

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