Ambition Quotes

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

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.

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.

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.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack 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.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

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

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.

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

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'