Ambition Quotes

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

A failed Iraq in the heart of the Middle East will provide safe haven for terrorists and extremists. It will embolden those who are trying to thwart the ambitions of reformers.

The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.

To want is more than to attain.

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.

Intention implies assuming you can and have every right to achieve your ambition and that you are powerful enough to make it happen.

Steer clear of pot. It's an ambition zapper. Wait till you've made it. When you're 45 buy a bong. But for now, buy a suit.

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

Europeans should be patient and try to find a formula to resolve this nuclear issue. We are determined to remove any ambiguities over our nuclear ambitions and also protect our right.

I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!

Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician. Personally, I feel his interest is a self-interest

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.

My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

The one-child policy was based on some faulty science and had, as an ambition, reining in Chinese population growth, so as to enhance the per capita wealth of the country.

China will have the biggest aging crisis that the world has ever seen over the next generation, and this happens at a time when Chinese ambitions, geopolitically speaking, are expanding.

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

I have no ambitions to be a pop star.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.

I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.

Ambition beats genius 99% of the time

Oh, I know I can sing. What I really want to be is an actress.

Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

I hate what you represent." ... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.