Quotes About Ambition

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

I no longer have it (desire to play).

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

Desire makes everything blossom

The distance between a person's dream and their accomplishments can only be measured by their desire.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

We are formed by what we desire

A wish is a desire without energy

If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.

Anyone can desire anything, but if you're not going to commit, you're not getting it.

Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.