Ambition Quotes

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

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.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

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.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

Ambition never comes to an end.

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

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.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

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

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

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.

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.