Ambition Quotes

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog - you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

Is it possible to have too much ambition? Is it possible to be too successful?

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!

You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.

The men who succeed are the efficient few.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

With some basic skills, ambition and persistence, then there is little limit to what you can achieve, and by trying you can often surprise yourself.

I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.

The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.