Quotes by Ambition You cannot teach ambition. Amy Chan teachambition Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and I'd done all three since I was 9-years-old. I could sing, but I didn't become a great singer. Amy Winehouse disciplineambitionyears When I hear that Jennifer Lopez is such a role model for Latinas, on the one hand I respect her for her business sense and I respect her for her ambition. But she's in the entertainment world. She's done it on her looks and very specifically on her anatomy. Madonna is also considered a great businesswoman and so is Yoko Ono. I feel if I had a young daughter right now, I would feel a little discouraged if that was my daughter's primary role model for success and for young people, for Latinas and Latinos. Ana Castillo role-modelsdaughterambition Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. Anatoli Boukreev climbingambitionpractice In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition. Andrea Bocelli essenceambitionfeels Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we call it 'joy'? Andrea Dworkin ambitionimaginationart It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library. Andrew Carnegie girlambitionboys My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms. Andrew Forge aliveambitiongiving From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power. Andrew Jackson governmentambitionpeople I have reached the summit of my ambition. Andrew Johnson my-ambitionsummitambition First ambitions are best. We are less brave later. Andrew Miller ambitionbravefirsts The main reason we didn't break up is because we weren't really a college band. We were just, two dudes who were messing around with music. We never played off-campus except for once or twice. We never had any ambitions to make it as a band after college, or anything like that. So that probably worked in our favor. We never took anything seriously, we still don't! Andrew VanWyngarden ambitioncollegereason I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition. Andrey Zvyagintsev actingambitionschool You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way. Andy Grove hard-workambitionneeds I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition. Angela Merkel badasssawsambition I don't believe you are simply born with the ambition of becoming chancellor. But if you want to make a difference, if you enjoy putting ideas into practice, then the post of chancellor has to be the one presenting the biggest opportunity of all. Angela Merkel ambitionopportunitybelieve It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain. Angelina Jolie villainambitionplay Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said. Ani DiFranco girleyeambition When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer. Anita Loos hollywoodambitionpeople My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress. Anjelica Huston boredambitionrunning«1234567891011»
