Ambition Quotes

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too!

I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll.

The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions

Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

I'm not against ambition and reach, but if you can say it in four lines, why waste your time saying it in more? Challenge the world by all means, but it's bad for your poetry to take steroids.

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.

I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.

Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people, Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Let work itself be the ambition.

Politics for me is not Ambition but a Mission.

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"

I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I'm doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.

Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?

Satisfaction is the death of ambition.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

People with ambition want Paolo Di Canio.

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

We have our ambitions [in Dortmund Borussia], and of course I would love to win some titles after some years of finishing second or losing finals.

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

All sporting ambition considered, there should always be a relationship to Germany.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!

Friendships that are first grounded in the shared professional ambitions - social stuff is built around that - and then you see people pulling each other up as they rise.

My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.

Sometimes, it is best to listen, ask the super question, for ambition is hustle.

Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent.

Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.

Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures.

How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige."