Ambition Quotes

News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.

Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant.

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character

Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

Somebody is always suspecting Russia of having some ambitions, there are always those who are trying to misinterpret us or keep something back.

If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.

I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in my ambition I fly to the Rockies.

Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

Women Who Seek Equality With Men Lack Ambition

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly.

Dont just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions.

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's.

One must have ambition and one must understand the minds ... of men.

From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.

Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.