Ambition Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Ambition is not a vice of little people.