Ambition Quotes

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

I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

That sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important

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.

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

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

I don't have any ambition.

Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

The results are in great need greater ambition.

No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare.

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.

When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me to make.

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.

Criticism is the price of ambition.

Jesus, all for Jesus, all I am and have and ever hope to be. All of my ambitions, hopes and plans, I surrender these into Your hands... For it's only in Your will that I am free.

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.

Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

It's sad, because he just doesn't have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter — which should be enough but doesn't seem to be enough in this case.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

A sense of duty imprisons you.

[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.

Ambition without contribution is of no significance.

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.

The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others.

My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.

Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.