Ambition Quotes

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.

To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.

Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know.

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.

The difference between a confident person and an unconfident person is simply that the confident person acts on their ambitions and desires and doesn’t let fear of failure stop them.

I have a lot of ambition.

Maybe I'm competitive. I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, "Someone unwrap it! Here it is!" That drive can't be held down. I have a lot of ambition.

I believe that the establishment of a real ambition, a powerfully galvanizing and exciting vision of what a group is setting out to create, is vitally important.

First, define your credo- the belief system of the organization. Secondly, define your real ambition, or where do you want to go as a collective community.

I dont even think in terms of ambition.

I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.

I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life—to stay fit and feel good.

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying and cheating.

I would love to end the nuclear ambition of the Iranians without firing a shot, but you have to know who you're talking to and what they actually want, this is North Korea in the making.

I loved him so much, loved his fearlessness, his strength, even the ambition that would someday take him away from me.

I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.

All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.