Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our ambition is to come up with a better taxation system than that of the outgoing government.

Our ambition is to be worldwide leaders in survey technology, and I believe we will be there in three years.

A driving ambition is of little use if you're on the wrong road

Katey Sagal

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

Now I have my new ambition to fly on my 100th birthday.

Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil. It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.

The research shows that our teenagers are full of ambition and really keen to have a career that offers good prospects,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.

Ambition - The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.

William Shakespeare

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff - Julius Caesar

Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition is never content, even on the summit of greatness.

This decision is vital to the ongoing development of our football club and our ambition is to have a capacity of 40,600.

This force, which is the best thing in you, your highest self, will never respond to any ordinary half-hearted call, or any milk-and-water endeavor, It can only be reached by your supremest call, your supremest effort. It will respond only to the call that is backed up by the whole of you, not part of you; you must be all there in what you are trying to do. You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure... Only a masterly call, a masterly will, a supreme effort, intense and persistent application, can unlock the door to your inner treasure and release your highest powers.

Johnny Depp

For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry-great. To have hopes, dreams-great.

Sallust

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Roman Polanski

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.

Susan Orlean

I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.

Sugar Ray Leonard

My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.

Steve Case

I'm probably never going to be satisfied with anything we do. I think there's always the possibility of doing better. And I'd say we're doing better than we were a year ago, in terms of delivery and quality of service, but nowhere near what we should be doing .

Steve Coogan

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.

Stephen Spender

Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.

Peter Straub

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

Peter Ustinov

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us

Penelope Cruz

My ambition is to be happy.

Pema Chodron

A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.

Paz Vega

My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

Rachel Field

The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!

Rabindranath Tagore

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Placido Domingo

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

Ted Baillieu

The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.