Ambition Quotes

When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

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.

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.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

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.

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.

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.

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

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