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Quotes About Ambition

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
~ Ralph Lauren
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.
~ Fernando J. Corbato
I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.
~ Judd Apatow
Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.
~ Jonathan Ive
I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.
~ Diana Ross
Lofty designs must close in like effects.
~ Robert Browning
My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.
~ Joseph Kosinski
I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.
~ Biz Stone
I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.
~ Gwendoline Christie
Where you have been isn't half as important as where you are headed. Keep your sights and focus on the future.
~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi
It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.
~ Peter The Great
Be eager in your desires but humbly patient in their accomplishment.
~ Mary MacKillop
Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.
~ Mike Murdock
Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.
~ Satya Nadella
Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.
~ Jacques Lacan
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
~ Ayn Rand
Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.
~ John C. Maxwell
What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up.
~ Anson Dorrance
Someday I'll wish upon a star.
~ Yip Harburg
Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
~ Kevin Costner
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.
~ Unknown