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Ambition is priceless, its something that's in your veins. — Wale

The results are in great need greater ambition. — Heraclitus

You will get what you wish for. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Everyone has to start somewhere. If you let people bring you down now, you'll never know how high you could climb. And you owe it to yourself to try. — Michelle Madow

Dont just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions. — Roger Milla

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition. — Nicole Krauss

I've become a captive of my own ambitions. — Patsy Cline

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. — Henry David Thoreau

If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way. — Habeeb Akande

Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it. — Suzy Kassem

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. — Anthony De Mello

Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. — Babyface

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do. — Tracey Ullman

My political ambition
is not worth the blood of any Nigerian — Goodluck Jonathan

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. — John Keats

She didn't know if this excitement was fueled by her ambition to find out something that nobody else knew. Or by the anticipation of finding out. — Antonia Michaelis

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. — Sallust

Education is a lifetime knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I know what I want. I will pursue it with all heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Boredom is actually a sign of ambition. So act on it. — Gregor Collins

Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. — Horace

Relax and be free. You don't have to prove anything. — Marty Rubin

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest. — Daley Thompson

For what is more lovable than failure? — Mervyn Peake

both were writers of high ambition, with — Gyles Brandreth

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer. — Robert A. Heinlein

If you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get. — Patricia Wentworth

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility. — P.D. James

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope. — Robert A. Heinlein

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large. — Raymond Loewy

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money. — Juliette Binoche

My one ambition is to play a hero. — Sessue Hayakawa

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. — Richard Steele

Dream. Desire. Dare. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions. — Cornelia Parker

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. — Milan Kundera

Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid . — John McCain

I have a lot of ambition. — Katy Perry

To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal of the survivor. — Bauvard

I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine. — Ian McKellen

It was an undemanding job both physically and mentally, which was fine. Stress was for the rich and hard-working. — Joe Cawley

Given courage and ability and a favorable set of circumstances, there is no greater way to [acquire] influence than to be free of personal ambition. — Lorena A. Hickok

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. — Benjamin Franklin

Ambition never comes to an end. — Kenneth Kaunda

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it. — Criss Jami

You can have ambition
But not too much
You should aim to be successful
But not too successful
Otherwise you will threaten the man — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it. — Henri Michaux

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer. — M. Scott Peck

My ambition is to unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. — Bhagat Singh

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics. — Pete Hamill

As long as we have children seeking unrealistic dreams, anything is possible. — H.S. Crow

Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul. — Mason Cooley

WE NEED MORE OF THOSE AND IF YOU STILL HATE THE WORD, IT IS NOT THE WORD THAT IS IMPORTANT. IT'S THE IDEA AND THE AMBITION BEHIND IT. — Emma Watson

The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits. — Wolfgang Ketterle

The nature of ambition is that it requires casualties. — Michael Dobbs

Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York. — Tucker Carlson

You will see true character after a defeated ambition — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there. — Idris Elba

He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne. — Jayne Castel

The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition. — Fernando Torres

I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels. — William Shakespeare

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. — John Adams

It has always been an ambition of mine to serve as an object lesson for others. — Patricia Briggs

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds. — Salvador Dali

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running. — Dave Matthes

Always stay one step a head, unless you're already there — Benny Bellamacina

I always sang and I always wrote ... it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams. — Mariah Carey

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. — Abraham Lincoln

Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. — Anatoli Boukreev

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition. — Angela Merkel

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition. — Ryan Holiday

He who burns with ambition to become aedile, tribune, praetor, consul, dictator, cries out that he loves his country and he loves only himself. — John Ralston Saul

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine — Elvis Presley

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

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition. — Joseph Joubert

The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree. — Vikas Swarup

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business — David Ogilvy

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions. — Vagit Alekperov

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry. — Nora Roberts

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess. — Elbert Hubbard

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach. — Mike Krzyzewski

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer. — James Hilton

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really. — Fiona Apple

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me. — Alex Kapranos

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination. — Dorothy Dunnett

You are capable of anything. Dream great dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil in vain... — Assegid Habtewold

Don't allow ambition to rob you of destiny. — Vonae Deyshawn

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity — Martin Luther