Ambition Quotes

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

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.

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

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.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.