Personal Ambitions Quotes

#1. It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.

Roger Staubach

#2. I have a few personal ambitions for the band.

John Deacon

#3. I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

Vagit Alekperov

#4. My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Omar Bongo

#5. We should recognize how in a culture where each person wants to be bearer of his or her own subjective truth, it becomes difficult for citizens to devise a common plan which transcends individual gain and personal ambitions.

Pope Francis

#6. The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.

George Barna

#7. Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

Greg Brown

#8. According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

Allen Tate

#9. Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Napoleon Hill

#10. Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

Brian May

#11. There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

Jeb Bush

#12. 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

#13. We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.

Woodrow Wilson

#14. No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare.

Charles Lindbergh

#15. We know, we feel in our guts, that decisions are constantly being made which are going to wreck our ambitions, our dreams, our personal relationships. But the people making those decisions are keeping them secret, because if they don't they'll lose the leverage they have over their subordinates.

John Brunner

#16. The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

Lana Turner

#17. The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.

Dada Vaswani

#18. Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

Bruce Lee

#19. The purpose of God is far greater than your own personal fulfillment or your peace of mind, or even your happiness, your family, your career or even your dreams and ambitions.

Moroaswi Tumiso Victor

#20. I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.

James W. Black

#21. Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now coming to think that they are decisively "personal," arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#23. To become a better you, never let the attitude of pride linger around your ambitions.

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. Go live your dreams. It is your only daring adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

Amah Lambert

#26. Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

Orson Scott Card

#27. In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

Monica Bellucci

#28. Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

Stephen Hawking

#29. In the words of the late Francis Crick ... You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)

Mary Roach

#30. Easy there, Sage. I'm no gun-toting crazy guy. Crazy, yes. But not the rest.

Richelle Mead

#31. After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

Mark Ruffalo

#32. The big trunk of the umbrella pine looms outside the window, living its two lives - the upper world of needles and stems, the lower world of roots and soil.

Anthony Doerr