Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Ambition Quotes

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.

Ambition Writing Medicine Career

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

Nature Perfection Ambition Control

My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used to take me on Sunday afternoons to see matinees. The most extraordinary things used to occur on that stage.

Father Me Ambition Theatre Sunday

Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.

Ambition Down More Being Once Given

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Charles Kennedy

Past Ambition Matter Years English

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

Ambition Burning Accomplished Had

It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.

Hamilton Jordan

Ambition Impossible Ego You Look

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Success Path Persistence Ambition

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

Father Mother Faith Teacher Ambition

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Step Mind Ambition Free First Step

To make my entire career at Lyon doesn't bother me as long as they continue to have the development and ambition to have a competitive team, even if we're not certain to win the Champions League.

Alexandre Lacazette

Me Team Ambition Win Long Career

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.

Ambition Sex Place Everything Take

As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.

Ambition Long I Can Country Achieve

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Knowledge Death Ambition Frustration

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

Annette Funicello

Ambition Career My Own More Tenacity

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Ambition Think Thought Surprise Top

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

William Feather

Ambition Tragedy Ability Many Few

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

Men I Am Me Ambition Name Become

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

Power Politics Yourself Ambition You

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Ambition Movies Popcorn Big Produce

I never thought of breaking a record. The only ambition I had was to become the fastest century maker for India, which I did when I broke Azharuddin's record.

Virender Sehwag

Ambition Thought India Become Never

I am really pleased to sign permanently with St. Etienne. It was my ambition in coming to St. Etienne. This is one of the finest passages of my young career.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

I Am Ambition Career Young Coming

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

Together Ambition World Talk Real

When one's greatest 'world stage' ambition is a non-voting seat on the U.N. Security Council five years down the road, one would not want to say anything to hurt the feelings of the veto holders in Moscow or Beijing. We get it. But let's at least be honest about all this, please. Enough of the 'Canada is back' slogans already.

Ambition World Road Hurt Enough

First Prev 13 141516 17 18 19 20 Next Last

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quotes about Ambition