Quotes tagged ‘Ambition’

(114 total)

“Work should make people want to come to work.”

— Nick Kroll, Sonya the Lovebug (voice), Pamela Adlon, imdb.com

“My dream is like a child and I'm taking all the custody.”

“The most ambitious women in the world are the ones who won’t have a life handed to them by someone else, but who will build it themselves, day by day, moment by moment, with whatever they have, wherever they are, and whenever they can.”

— Brianna Wiest, psiloveyou.xyz

“There’s no clear-cut answer to feeling less guilty for just existing, but a good start is to take time for yourself that isn’t organized or easily optimizable.”

— Marianne Eloise, vice.com

“My ambition just poisoned every decision.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Payton Hobart, Ben Platt, imdb.com

“I try to do good things, right? But I'm not a good person. That's my flaw. I'm ambitious. I am political. I'm conniving.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Payton Hobart, Ben Platt, imdb.com

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”

— Maya Angelou, amazon.com

“I want to be president because I feel that we can bring this country together. We can unify around our ambitions, our aspirations, the big things that we know we are capable of when all of us have the opportunity to contribute.”

— Beto O'Rourke, elpasotimes.com

“Josephine: A guy upstairs, he died. Rhedora Haze: And you just took them. Josephine: He had no family for friends. Rhedora Haze: I can make you rich.”

— Dan Gilroy, Josephina, Zawe Ashton, imdb.com

“I never dreamed I would make it this far.”

— Max Minghella, Violet Valenski, imdb.com

“Solving an unprecedented crisis will require unprecedented ambition.”

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, instagram.com

“My dad was exceptionally ambitious. But he had a lot thrown on him, exceeding his ambition. He wanted his band to be successful. But he didn't want to be the fucking voice of a generation.”

— Frances Bean Cobain, rollingstone.com

“T'Challa: What do you want? Erik Killmonger: I want the throne!”

— Joe Robert Cole, Ryan Coogler, T'Challa / Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, imdb.com

“Coach Boone: [after Gary got into his car accident] I don't know mama, maybe Yost was right. Maybe I pushed him too hard. Carol Boone: Gary had an accident. Sometimes life's just hard, for no reason at all. Coach Boone: Do you think I was blinded by my own ambition? Carol Boone: Whatever kind of amb…”

— Gregory Allen Howard, Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington, imdb.com

“You can always tell ambitious women by the shape of our heads: they're flat on top for being patted patronizingly.”

— Dame Stephanie Shirley, ted.com

“The myth of female empowerment has always been on a collision course with the reality.”

— Lisa Miller, thecut.com

“Encumbered forever by desire and ambition.”

— Pink Floyd, open.spotify.com

“Every time I feel selfish ambition is taking my vision. My crime is my sentence, repentance is taking commission. It’s taking a toll on my soul, I’m screaming submission and I don’t know if I am dying or living.”

— Tyler Joseph, youtube.com

“We need to take women out of the box; to stop using a narrow set of adjectives to describe her as a leader.”

— Fran Hauser, refinery29.com

“I see what's mine and take it.”

— Panic! At The Disco, open.spotify.com