Quotes About Ambition

If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

If you believe it and desire it, you can acquire it.

To desire with one's very soul every second of every day to accomplish one's aim.

Desire is possibility seeking expression.

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

Those things that I must do I shall desire to do.

One must desire something to be alive.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the best at everything else I do in terms of writing and acting.

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

The key that unlocks energy is desire.

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.