Ambition Quotes

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

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.

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.