Ambition Quotes

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.

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

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 ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

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.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

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.

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

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.