Ambition Quotes

My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to promise but action is different.

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.

All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal.

I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

Ambition aspires to descend

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing, great things are possible to you.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of course, never achieve this, but I always act as if I can.

Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

My ambition is peace and perfection.

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

Aim High, Drive hard.