Ambition Quotes

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

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.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I am still full of ambition.

My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.