Ambition Quotes

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.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

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.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

Ambition never comes to an end.

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.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

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.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

I have a lot of ambition.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.