Ambition Quotes
I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I'll stick to it.
I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.
Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.
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.
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.
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.
Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.
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 psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.
They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell.
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.
I always just wanted to have enough to carry on. I never had ambitions to take over the world or be a global enterprise. But I wanted to have a strong business in order to do the main objective.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.
The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.