Quotes About Ambitions

#1. Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

Storm Jameson

#2. This must be the most important factor in your choice of a life partner," he told Ada. "Who will most patiently and enthusiastically support your ambitions?

Liz Moore

#3. The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.

Laozi

#4. There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

Kris Kristofferson

#5. A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.

E. Lockhart

#6. I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Lady Gaga

#7. Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.

Pierre De Coubertin

#8. Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.

Eve Ensler

#9. Is my gardener's pride to be sacrificed on the altar of Mr Molesley's ambitions?
- The Dowager Countess(Maggie Smith)

Julian Fellowes

#10. He had so many ambitions. She had but one. To love.

Karen Marie Moning

#11. In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.

Frederick Lenz

#12. We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

Narendra Modi

#13. My lofty ambitions are partially due to the fact that I'm part of generation, Yes You Can, I Guess: How about I throw a combination of money, attention, and prescription medication at the problem?

Alida Nugent

#14. I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

Craig Ferguson

#15. She should laugh at such ambitions on his part: nothing about him held any romance for her, not his crown, not his black heart, not his beautiful liar's face.

Sherry Thomas

#16. 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

#17. It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There comes a point where milestones can become millstones and ambitions, albatrosses around our necks.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#18. Observation is the telescope of human nature. It is the tele of watching distantly. But taking an action is the result of Self-regulation and interference. It is going beyond boundaries in aiming to achieve a considerable ambitions.

Mohammed Rasmi

#19. Your aspirations are deeply influenced by your inspirations. Don't produce bad situations due to a lack of creative ambitions.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#20. Dreams and ambitions are great, but when we link faith to action through honor, we unlock the gifts God has put into our lives.

Russell Evans

#21. She got, instead, a towering confection that might have thought about becoming a sandwich at one point, but had gotten greater ambitions along the way.

Catherynne M Valente

#22. To lay aside what you have in your head (selfish desires and ambitions); to freely bestow what you have in your hand; and never to flinch from the blows of adversity!

Paramahansa Yogananda

#23. You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

Alexander McCall Smith

#24. This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.

Augusten Burroughs

#25. Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

Donald Miller

#26. There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

Pope Francis

#27. Her ambitions have always exceeded her abilities." He paused, and looked directly at Regal. "In royalty, that is a most lamentable failing.

Robin Hobb

#28. CA means Chakra of Ambitions. I am a Chartered Accountant.

Vikrmn

#29. We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Pierre Pettigrew

#30. There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

Colleen McCullough

#31. Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

H.G.Wells

#32. One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#33. My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.

Susan Ford

#34. 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

#35. His life had gone by without adventures, without passions, almost without hopes. The facility of dreaming, planted in every man, had never blossomed in the narrow bed of his ambitions.

Guy De Maupassant

#36. A man's worst enemies are his own ambitions.

Joe Abercrombie

#37. Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them
that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

L.M. Montgomery

#38. Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

Jose Saramago

#39. You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.

Bryan Brown

#40. First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

Andrew Miller

#41. They tugged plans and ambitions out their asses and held tight to the first that didn't smell so strongly of shit.

Patrick Bryant

#42. His ambitions exceed his talent.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#43. I had great ambitions and extravagant dreams, but so did the errand boy and the seamstress, for everyone has dreams; the only difference is whether or not we have the strength to fulfil them or a destiny that will fulfil them through us.

Fernando Pessoa

#44. We were bothered by sex because it is a fundamentally disruptive, overwhelming and demented force, strongly at odds with the majority of our ambitions and all but incapable of being discreetly integrated within civilized society.

Alain De Botton

#45. 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

#46. World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

Rohinton Mistry

#47. While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

Bill Gates

#48. I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Lady Gaga

#49. If you try to keep your most sacred ambitions off of your weekly calendar and your most genuine traits off of your resume, then you're missing out on the power of real integrity.

Danielle LaPorte

#50. The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do ...

Joe Abercrombie

#51. They inherited it all. The curse of privilege. Janitors for the ambitions of the dead.

Colum McCann

#52. I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.

Jeb Bush

#53. I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.

Elizabeth Ray

#54. The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Willa Cather

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

George Barna

#56. We are all the same inside. We have the same heartaches and joys, the same fears and ambitions. Money doesn't change who we are.

Colleen Coble

#57. My ambitions at this point are modest and mostly surround staying alive.

David Foster Wallace

#58. 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

#59. Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.

J.C. Lillis

#60. It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#61. Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#62. Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

Tim Gunn

#63. Mme. de Gallardon, who could never stop herself from sacrificing her greatest social ambitions and highest hopes of someday dazzling the world to the immediate, obscure, and private pleasure of saying something disagreeable.

Marcel Proust

#64. He spoke loudly, declaring his ambitions and opinions with a frankness that might be called hubristic (if one was skeptical) or dauntless (if one was not).

Eleanor Catton

#65. The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Helmut Jahn

#66. 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

#67. To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.

P.B. Kerr

#68. Chernobyl haunts us with the reminder that all of man's ambitions are ephemeral. Our grandest designs and sturdiest monuments,

Josh Gates

#69. An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

Criss Jami

#70. There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

Joseph O'Connor

#71. 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

#72. The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.

Ludwig Von Mises

#73. The difference between a confident person and an unconfident person is simply that the confident person acts on their ambitions and desires and doesn't let fear of failure stop them.

Katty Kay

#74. [Politics] is the seedbed of social enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual. Name anything bad in man, and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with abundance.

Maxim Gorky

#75. The trick in minimizing dark moments, no matter how tragic they may be, is to have ambitions placed far beyond them.

Carl Henegan

#76. When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.

Michael Douglas

#77. He was looking for a vehicle of purpose, for a vessel to contain his formless ambitions and abilities.

Robert Silverberg

#78. It was time to take up the discussion over governance, housing, transportation, security, health care, and education - to define the country we wanted and outline our terms. Who were we. . . . What were our limits and our ambitions?

Juliana Barbassa

#79. I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#80. Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions ... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

Muhammad Iqbal

#81. I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.

Andre Previn

#82. I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

LeRoy Neiman

#83. It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

Lee Atwater

#84. FCC power rests on ... nonobjective law (which) delivers men's lives, fortunes, careers, ambitions into the arbitrary power of a bureaucrat who can reward or punish at whim.

Ayn Rand

#85. Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

Kimi Raikkonen

#86. 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

#87. Songs have taught me more about life than school ever has and how to follow my ambitions no matter what they are and how to live my life no matter the trade-off.

Meghan Blistinsky

#88. I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

Peter Straub

#89. We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what your soul is telling you, so as crazy as your dream might seem - even to you - I don't care: You have to let that out.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

#90. Big results require big ambitions. ~ Heraclitus

B.L. Norris

#91. I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#92. The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

Laozi

#93. Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

Richard Branson

#94. I always just wanted to have enough to carry on. I never had ambitions to take over the world or be a global enterprise. But I wanted to have a strong business in order to do the main objective.

Rei Kawakubo

#95. But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

Walker Percy

#96. Like most men with what's known as "house-help," Pimli Prentiss had no clear sense of his employees as creatures with goals, ambitions, and feelings -

Stephen King

#97. Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions.

Nicola Sturgeon

#98. My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

Romola Garai

#99. And I love being with you. Your giggle, your silly grin, how you apply you personality in paste. The ambitions that I share. The way of thinking that I understand. The unconventional person, you are. You are the odd-shaped jigsaw puzzle that I'm looking to fit. And you completed me

Raditya Dika

#100. Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.

Alexis De Tocqueville