Ambition Quotes And Sayings

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“The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” 
– Hunter S. Thompson

“He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.” 
– Iain Pears

“I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.” 
– J.M. August

“This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.”
– James L. Buckley 

“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”
– James Madison 

“I’m not a very good sleeper. But you know what? I’m willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That’s just the kind of hard worker I am.” 
– Jarod Kintz

“Follow your star, it’s never too late, even if it doesn’t quite happen as you expect.” 
– Jemima Pett

“You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights. But any person who wants to make music, and doesn’t, is a goddamned fool.” 
– Jenna Woginrich

“Goals. There’s not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.”
– Jim Rohn

“…ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know…” 
– John Geddes

“The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.” 
– John Green

“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
– John Ruskin 

“Ambition, madam, is a great man’s madness.”
– John Webster

“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”
– Johnny Depp 

“There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.” 
– Jonas Salk

“Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.” 
– Jonathan Stroud

“To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.”
– Josephine Hart

“I have a lot of ambition.”
– Katy Perry 

“I’m going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind – blind ambition, and it’s kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I’ll stick to it.”
– Katy Perry 

“If it’s IN you to climb you must — there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills — they can’t breathe properly in the valleys.” 
– L.M. Montgomery

“Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.”
– Lao Tzu 

“It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.”
– Leonardo Da Vinc

“I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.”
– Liam Neeson 

“The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.”
– Luc De Clapiers

“We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” 
– Mae West

“The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.” 
– Marc Fitten

“A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.” 
– Marcus Aurelius

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”
– Marcus Aurelius 

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