Ambition Quotes
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Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life (Quote by - Harvey MacKay)
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. (Quote by - Edgar Quinet)
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet- clang of another's fame. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. (Quote by - Thomas Otway)
Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand (Quote by - William Feather)
Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies (Quote by - Bob Hope)
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. (Quote by - C. Archie Danielson)
The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one, May hope to achieve it before life be done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets. (Quote by - Lord Lytton)
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.' (Quote by - Marilyn Monroe)
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. (Quote by - David Hume)
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. (Quote by - William Somerset Maugham)
When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success (Quote by - Cullen Hightower)
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. (Quote by - Noah Webster)
Hitch your wagon to a star. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When ambition ends, happiness begins. (Quote by - Hungarian Proverb)
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. (Quote by - Epictetus)
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. (Quote by - Dr. Carl Sagan)
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. (Quote by - Marquis De Vauvenargues)
Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord. (Quote by - Eddie Condon)
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. (Quote by - Sallust)
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us / avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. (Quote by - Francesco Petrarch)
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain. (Quote by - Angelina Jolie)
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. (Quote by - Thomas Dunn English)
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - - what everyone else does not say in a book. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. (Quote by - Sir Roger L'Estrange)
I have no ambition in this world but one, and that is to be a fireman. The position may, in the eyes of some, appear to be a lowly one; but we who know the work which the fireman has to do believe that his is a noble calling. Our proudest moment is to save lives. Under the impulse of such thoughts, the nobility of the occupation thrills us and stimulates us to deeds of daring, even of supreme sacrifice. (Quote by - Chief Edward F. Croker)
I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way. (Quote by - Joe DiMaggio)
Such joy ambition finds. (Quote by - John Milton)
Pride went before, ambition follows him. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. (Quote by - Kenneth Kaunda)
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die. (Quote by - Joseph Hall)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Quote by - Contributed by: Maria Green)
In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is (Quote by - Robert Herrick)
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. (Quote by - Marcus T. Cicero)
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. (Quote by - Buddha)
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. (Quote by - Michael J. Fox)
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. (Quote by - Anatole France)
My ambition is to be happy. (Quote by - Penelope Cruz)
Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds. (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)
Ambition has no rest! (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton)
After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer. (Quote by - American Proverb)
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. (Quote by - John Webster)
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being (Quote by - John Lubbock)
It's very frustrating. The lads showed a lot of ambition in the first half, they went out to sustain it in the second but couldn't build on it. (Quote by - Andy Robinson)
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer. (Quote by - Seneca)
My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special. (Quote by - Sugar Ray Leonard)
Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition. (Quote by - Terry Josephson)
Ambition aspires to descend (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)
Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep. (Quote by - Madonna)
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless - - for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)
Learn to live in this world with self- respect. You should always cherish some ambition of doing something in this world. But remember that the age of selflessness has ended. A new epoch is set in. All things are now possible because of your being able to participate in the politics and legislature of your country. (Quote by - B. R. Ambedkar)
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice (Quote by - Georges Bizet)
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
He was utterly without ambition . He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
Big results require big ambitions. (Quote by - Heraclitus of Ephesus)
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science. (Quote by - Marie Curie)
That sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important. (Quote by - Hazel Blears)
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money. (Quote by - Juliette Binoche)
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. (Quote by - Bill Bradley)
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it (Quote by - Seneca)
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
And remember, the people that you've seen here tonight are professionals, so please don't try any of this at home, because you are ugly and hung like a hampster. (Quote by - Nick Frost)
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehea)
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability (Quote by - William Feather)
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. (Quote by - Elvis Presley)
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
By low ambition and the thirst of praise. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. (Quote by - Henry Jackson Van Dyke)
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life. (Quote by - Baron Pierre De Coubertin)
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles. (Quote by - Karl von Clausewitz)
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football. (Quote by - John Barnes)
I never gave a thought to running, ... Not even in my heart of hearts do I have an ambition to do that. (Quote by - Gregory Peck)
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. (Quote by - Charlie McCarthy)
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. (Quote by - Alistair Cooke)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: 'Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?'. (Quote by - J A Schumpeter)
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper (Quote by - George Santayana)
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. (Quote by - Pat Riley)
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Ambition and fleas both jump high (Quote by - German Proverb)
Now I have my new ambition to fly on my 100th birthday. (Quote by - Herbert Sloane)
Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust. (Quote by - Daniel Noonan)
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. (Quote by - Jim Henson)
I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?" (Quote by - General George S. Patton)
For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave. (Quote by - George Herbert)
The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions. (Quote by - Mike Atherton)
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. (Quote by - Cicero)
If I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity. (Quote by - Madonna)
I've long harboured radio presenting ambitions. (Quote by - Abi Titmuss)
At the age of six I wantd to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. (Quote by - Salvador Dali)
I have been absolutely hag- ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition. (Quote by - Tallulah Bankhead)
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. (Quote by - Oliver Herford)
I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- seeking profile that you need. (Quote by - Laurel Cutler)
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go. (Quote by - James Cook)
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscapes (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
I strike the stars with by sublime head. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. (Quote by - John Dryden)
The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow. (Quote by - Yakubu Gowon)
Ambition is not what man does.. but what man would do. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider. (Quote by - Dr. Joyce Brothers)
Ambition never comes to an end. (Quote by - Kenneth Kaunda)
Perhaps middle- age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. (Quote by - Arthur Christopher Benson)
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds! (Quote by - Eliza Cook)
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? (Quote by - Vincent van Gogh)
I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Ambition is the last refuge of failure. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition. (Quote by - John D Rockefeller)
Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky. (Quote by - American Proverb)
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
We grow small trying to be great. (Quote by - Eli Stanley Jones)
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. (Quote by - Bryant H. McGill)
As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly. (Quote by - Justin Hayward)
Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money. (Quote by - Judith M. Bardwick)
Character cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find. (Quote by - Dr. Wayne Dyer)
Look, I have already said I am not going to put any artificial limits on our ambitions this time around (Quote by - Charles Kennedy)
By 2014 we want to be internationally recognised as the number one club Chelsea ambitions. (Quote by - Peter Kenyon)
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all. (Quote by - Bob Marley)
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. (Quote by - Herbert N. Casson)
I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all. (Quote by - Loretta Young)
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)
For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great. (Quote by - Johnny Depp)
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. (Quote by - Epicurus)
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go. (Quote by - James R. Cook)
Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. (Quote by - John Milton)
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know. (Quote by - Frank Sinatra)
My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress. (Quote by - Anjelica Huston)
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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!. (Quote by - Rachel Field)
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. (Quote by - Elizabeth I)
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty (Quote by - Seneca)
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. (Quote by - Herbert Kaufman)
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation. (Quote by - Montaigne)
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be. (Quote by - Steven Brust)
Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition. (Quote by - Jack Handy)
Time is the only critic without ambition. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
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. (Quote by - Alberto Ricardo Carvalho)
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. (Quote by - John Keats)
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web. (Quote by - John McCarthy)
Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself. (Quote by - F. Hawes)
On her childhood ambitions: I wanted to own a chain of hotels. Another crazy idea was to be Governor of California. (Quote by - Caprice)
Achievement results from work realizing ambition. (Quote by - Adam Ant)
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition. (Quote by - William Osler)
It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film. (Quote by - Paul McCartney)
But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last To basest things. (Quote by - John Milton)
If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want. (Quote by - John Milton)
In our country, true teams rarely exist . . . social barriers and personal ambitions have reduced athletes to dissolute cliques or individuals thrown together for mutual profit . . . Yet these rugby players. with their muddied, cracked bodies, are struggling to hold onto a sense of humanity that we in America have lost and are unlikely to regain. The game may only be to move a ball forward on a dirt field, but the task can be accomplished with an unshackled joy and its memories will be a permanent delight. The women and men who play on that rugby field are more alive than too many of us will ever be. The foolish emptiness we think we perceive in their existence is only our own. (Quote by - Victor Cahn)
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. (Quote by - Cesar Chavez)
On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn. (Quote by - William Cowper)
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice A banner with the strange device, Excelsior! (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God. (Quote by - Madonna)
The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. (Quote by - Timothy Leary)
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done. Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals, I lost my ethical compass. (Quote by - Jeb Stuart Magruder)
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. (Quote by - Sir William Osler)
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions. (Quote by - Omar Bongo)
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
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. (Quote by - Babyface)
Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose (Quote by - Frank Tyger)
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A driving ambition is of little use if you're on the wrong road (Quote by - Frank Tyger)
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin- American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony. (Quote by - Billie Burke)
I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your v (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
As in nature, things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. (Quote by - Francis Bacon Sr.)
A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. (Quote by - Jean De La Bruyere)
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Ambition! powerful source of good and ill! (Quote by - Edward Young)
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. (Quote by - Michael Korda)
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue (Quote by - Quintilian)
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. (Quote by - Robert Southey)
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...? (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Ambition - The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly. (Quote by - Larry Kersten)
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. (Quote by - Pearl Bailey)
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms. (Quote by - Harrison Ford)
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused. (Quote by - Rachel Field)
