Famous Quotes & Sayings

We needed this for morale. We have the talent, the desire and the ambition to win, we just hadn't. I have been trying to teach them to believe that they can win.

John Gray

Some people are just more spiritual than others and I really had a strong ambition to know God,

Gene Tunney

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

Jamie Cullum

My only ambition is to grow as a musician.

Erik Morales

Last Saturday night I run into a guy with a lot of ambition who wanted to win very much. Was in great condition and was obviously well prepared to fight me.

It has always been my ambition to win this event. I have tried two or three times before but on this occasion I knew I was coming into the race injury-free.

It has always been my ambition to win a major outdoor title and that will be the plan at the Commonwealths.

It is our ambition not to be below the average growth rate in the gases business.

Celso Amorim

I think that we may have to be content with a little less, ... But if that happens, it does not mean lowering the ambition of the round.

It is mysterious that the ambition should have come first - the wish to be a writer, to have that distinction, that fame - and that this ambition should have come long before I could think of anything to write about.

Dave Whelan

Paul and myself are not talking about Europe just yet. The ambition was to stay in the Premier League and we look like we're going to fulfill that ambition. We never thought we would get to the final of the League Cup. It's fairytale stuff.

Ben Affleck

I am a first-time director given an opportunity to pursue an artistic ambition I would not likely have the chance to elsewhere. The budget is excruciatingly tight, I am regularly abused and I expect to be fired sometime before we shoot. It's nice to see that, at Miramax, continuity has been maintained.

Carla Gugino

I think the level of ambition of this piece is something that attracted all of us, ... doing something in a genre where you can deal with supernatural elements, but really see them through the human beings.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes: ambition, secrecy, calculating. I mean, that is Lady Macbeth, a kind of cold woman. I don't think that's Hillary. And I don't think people would judge a man in the same way.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

Alastair Humphreys

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

Amelia Earhart

My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.

Cullen Hightower

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

Conrad Black

We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .

Alexander Pope

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

Alexander Pope

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Alex Kapranos

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

E. Stanley Jones

We grow small trying to be great.

E. O. Wilson

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to Icarus of the Greek myth.

Dorothy Dunnett

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

Donald Miller

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

Donald Miller

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

Clare Boothe Luce

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

Dalai Lama

The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.

Dalai Lama

To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

Dino De Laurentiis

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

Deepak Chopra

Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.