Ambition Quotes

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

Ambition aspires to descend.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

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 ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

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.