Ambition Quotes

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.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

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

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

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

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

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

Hope clouds observation.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

The vague torment of ... ambition.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.

Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions

We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.

All women are ambitious naturallie

Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions

While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.

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

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

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.

Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.

Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

I have reached the summit of my ambition.

Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.