Ambition Quotes

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

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

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

I love music so much, and as long as I got all this enthusiasm and ambition, and passion for this music; as long as I'm having' fun - I'm gonna keep doin' it.

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by Thee.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

Here is the Divine Dichotomy... The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'. Just be where you choose to get!' It's that simple.

An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator

I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

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

No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.

Ambition is the death of thought.

Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.