Ambition Quotes

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

~ Alva Myrdal

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

~ Natalie Massenet

'Chef' is a dish of arroz con pollo served with a smile but not much style. The critic in the film would give it a low grade, for agreeability without ambition.

~ Richard Corliss

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

~ Jennifer Ehle

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

~ Bill Bradley

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

~ William Eardley Iv

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

~ Jessye Norman

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

~ Anna Held

I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

~ Samuel Johnson

In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

~ Panayiotis Zavos