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My ambition is to be happy.

Penelope Cruz

Actress · Spanish · b. 1974

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

Alex O'Loughlin

Actor · Australian

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

Bob Marley

Musician · 1945 – 1981

Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.

Ryan Sheckler

Athlete · American · b. 1989

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

Alex Trebek

Entertainer · American · b. 1940

I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer.

Kristen Bell

Actress · American · b. 1980

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

Johnny Depp

Actor · b. 1963

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

Kimi Raikkonen

Celebrity · Finnish · b. 1979

Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.

Venus Williams

Athlete · American · b. 1980

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

Alfred Hitchcock

Director · English · 1899 – 1980

Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Actress · American · b. 1977

My one ambition is to play a hero.

Sessue Hayakawa

Actor · Japanese · 1889 – 1973

I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.

Charisma Carpenter

Actress · American · b. 1970

You make a mistake, you keep going.

Linda Gray

Actress · American · b. 1942

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Bjorn Borg

Athlete · Swedish · b. 1956

If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.

Marg Helgenberger

Actress · American · b. 1958

I am still full of ambition.

Jan Timman

Celebrity · Dutch · b. 1951

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

LeBron James

Athlete · American · b. 1984

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer · French · 1613 – 1680

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Statesman · English · 1874 – 1965

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Ambrose Bierce

Journalist · American · b. 1842

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

John Ruskin

Writer · English · 1819 – 1900

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Ambrose Bierce

Journalist · American · b. 1842

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer · French · 1613 – 1680

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

Journalist · American · 1868 – 1930

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Elbert Hubbard

Writer · American · 1859 – 1915

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

President · American · 1890 – 1969

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Theodore Roosevelt

President · American · 1858 – 1919

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer · French · 1613 – 1680

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Colin Powell

Statesman · American · b. 1937

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

Bo Bennett

Businessman · American · b. 1972

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Dale Carnegie

Writer · American · 1888 – 1955

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Oscar Wilde

Dramatist · Irish · 1854 – 1900

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

Bo Bennett

Businessman · American · b. 1972

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Lord Chesterfield

Statesman · British · b. 1694

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet · American · 1807 – 1882

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Jim Rohn

Businessman · American

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Jonathan Swift

Writer · Irish · 1667 – 1745

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

Nicholas Sparks

Author · American · b. 1965

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

Gerry Adams

Politician · Irish · b. 1948

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

William Feather

Author · American · 1889 – 1981

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

Alphonso Jackson

Public Servant · American · b. 1945

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

Businessman · American · b. 1946

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Denis Waitley

Writer · American

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

William Hazlitt

Critic · English · 1778 – 1830

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Philip Levine

Poet · American · b. 1928

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

Kit Williams

Author

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

Calvin Klein

Designer · American · b. 1942

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