Quotes About Ambitions

We've always supported corrupt regimes abroad if they help us with our global ambitions, so now we're supporting corrupt regimes within.

We are, perhaps, more sensitive about the pedigree of our intellectual creed than we are about the pedigree of our tastes or our sentiments. We like to think that beliefs which claim to be rational are the product of a purely rational process; and though, where others are concerned, we complacently admit the intrusion of non-rational links in the causal chain, we have higher ambitions for ourselves.

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

While there are many moderate Muslims, Islam's political ideology is radical and has global ambitions.

I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work.

I always say my three dream wins would be San Remo, Champs-Elysees, and World Championships.

I've gotta long list of things to do, bucket list things - play 'Saturday Night Live,' make a movie. I want a lot of things, but one of my deepest wishes would be to headline - and sell out - Red Rocks.

If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

Dreams and ambitions are great, but when we link faith to action through honor, we unlock the gifts God has put into our lives.

People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time.

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

In life, we have either reasons or results

If Fourierism could be realised (which it surely cannot) out of a dream, the destinies of our race would shrivel up under the unnatural heat, and human nature would, in my mind, be desecrated and dishonored — because I do not believe in purification without suffering, in progress without struggle, in virtue without temptation. Least of all do I consider happiness the end of man's life. We look to higher things, have nobler ambitions.

I've got lots of ambitions, but I only ever think of them when I'm lying around in my undies having a snooze.

no ideology can protect a son from the unwelcome inheritance of his father's ambitions.

The past is immutable. Don't let it distract you from your current goals and ambitions.

I have a song that's called 'Rap Dreams, Hoop Dreams'. Besides education, everybody's got hoop dreams from day one in rap. Rap, sports, music have so much of an impact on the world.

I hate when rappers do interviews. They say stuff like, 'If I wasn't doing this, I'd be dead or in jail.' Like, damn, those are the only two options? What about managing Kinkos?

American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.

È questo che ammiro nella gioventù italiana, il lento scemare delle ambizioni, la consapevolezza che il meglio è di gran lunga alle spalle. Noi americani abbiamo molto da imparare dal loro declino pieno di grazia.

I have been able to fulfil nearly all my ambitions at Chelsea. I have won the Champions League, the League, I have won FA Cups here, but you don't want to stop winning trophies, and being at a big club, you are always fighting to win a trophy.

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.