Ambition Quotes

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

I was not born with tremendous ambition.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my 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.

I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I'll stick to it.

My ambition is to be happy.

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.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

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.

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

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

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