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