Quotes About Ambition

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great.

There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

...for everything can come to those who have the desire,the drive, the dedication, and the determination." v.c.andrews

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do it if you didn't have something that clicked right away.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

I have no desire to carry a movie.

The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

What I want to know from students, and I ask them right away, is, 'What do you want? I don't care what it is. I want to help you get it.

Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.