Ambition Quotes
- Page 8I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
Haruki Murakami
My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
Ravi Shankar
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
Bob Riley
The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
Georg Solti
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
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
David Lee Roth
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
Carmen Kass
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
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Henry Taylor
I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'
Dino De Laurentiis
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
Henry Drummond