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
Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.
~ Michael K. Powell
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
~ Thomas Merton
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
~ Aslan Maskhadov
Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
~ Thomas Bulfinch
Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories, that is my main ambition. And to be working with amazing creators.
~ Stana Katic
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
~ Walter Savage Landor
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
~ Pancho Villa
A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don't usually get a chance to work with other black people.
~ Elvis Mitchell
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
~ James K. Polk
I never get bored talking about themes dealing with ambition, leadership and what it means to be an American. I love that stuff. I just love it. I've loved it ever since I was on 'The West Wing.'
~ Rob Lowe
I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.
~ Chris Hadfield
I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.
~ Margaret Heffernan
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
~ Alfred P. Sloan
I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
~ Gail Sheehy
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
~ Adam Smith
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
~ Shakti Gawain
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life - and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all.
~ Michael Leunig
There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.
~ Michael Ealy
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
~ Roger Ebert
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
~ Jodie Foster
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
~ Alexander Pope
If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
~ Orison Swett Marden
I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to the customer what the ambition of their restaurant is. Not only the typeface and the design, but what is it printed on? Is it cheap-looking? Is it the right kind of paper for that restaurant?
~ Joe Bastianich
It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
~ Doris Day
I am the product of hustlers who taught me how to do it. They gave me a hustler's ambition. Not a bad thing to get from your parents. But hustling only gets you so far. You have to trust yourself. And you have to be ready to fall on your face and be okay when it happens.
~ Jay Pharoah
I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
~ Jean-Francois Cope
I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.
~ John Hurt
I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
~ Lionel Messi
I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.
~ Janis Joplin
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
~ Juliette Binoche
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
~ Riccardo Muti
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
~ Carroll Shelby
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
~ Petrarch
