Ambition Quotes

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

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

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.

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.

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.

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.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

My ambition is peace and perfection.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

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

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.

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 principles which direct them.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

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.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.