Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Balthasar GracianWith some basic skills, ambition and persistence, then there is little limit to what you can achieve, and by trying you can often surprise yourself.
Joe GoldI've long harboured radio presenting ambitions. [Unfortunately the British public doesn't harbour that same ambition back!]
Abi TitmussThe greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Marquis De VauvenarguesHe had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.
Les DawsonCharacter cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen KellerA young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven BrustPeople in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
Margaret MeadMy ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
Juliette BinocheAn ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael KordaUnruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
Sir Roger L'EstrangeAmbition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis PresleyBasically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Bob DylanA man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead.
Pearl BaileyA 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.
Marcus AureliusAmbition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert BrowningWhere does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician. Personally, I feel his interest is a self-interest [on George Galloway]
Helen MirrenEngland's main problem [in rugby] is they lack confidence. If you don't have confidence, you have no ambition, and it's very difficult to play without any ryhthm. [on 2006 performance]
Jonathan DaviesPublic life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
Pat RileyDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas JeffersonAchievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam AntIndividual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.
Herbert Baxter AdamsOther passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation
MontaigneSomeday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord. [Lofty ambition indeed!]
Eddie CondonLook, I have already said I am not going to put any artificial limits on our ambitions this time around [on the election in 2005]
Charles KennedyAmbition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas OtwayAmbition's cradle oftenest is its grave
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowDon't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand
William FeatherAmbition is not a vice of little people
MontaigneAmbition 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.
James CookIt's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.
Angelina JolieBut if thou livest in Adam, and Adam reigns in thee, then thou art not a child of God, nor born again of him. For since thou art overcome by the world, and since the prince therefore rules in thee by pride, ambition and selflove, thou art on this very account to be numbered amongst the children of the devil.
John ArndtAmbition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die
Joseph HallThe only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions
Mike AthertonModeration 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.
Benjamin DisraeliIn our country, true teams rarely exist . . . social barriers and personal ambitions have reduced athletes to dissolute cliques or individuals thrown together for mutual profit . . . Yet these rugby players. with their muddied, cracked bodies, are struggling to hold onto a sense of humanity that we in America have lost and are unlikely to regain. The game may only be to move a ball forward on a dirt field, but the task can be accomplished with an unshackled joy and its memories will be a permanent delight. The women and men who play on that rugby field are more alive than too many of us will ever be. The foolish emptiness we think we perceive in their existence is only our own
Victor Cahn Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund BurkeAmbition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
J M BarrieIn ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Christian Nestell BoveeThe man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
John D RockefellerThe difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!
Rachel FieldOf all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
Oliver GoldsmithThat sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important [leaving the Labour party then, Hazel?]
Hazel BlearsMy ambition is to be happy.
Penelope CruzFestival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinWhen ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas MertonAmbition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme - to be sublimely great or to be nothing. [a profound quote indeed]
Shakti GawainIt has always been my ambition to see the group deliver a full year of profitability. Now this has been achieved, it is the right time for the business and the right time for me to explore other challenges [on leaving lastminute]
Martha Lane FoxAmbition, like a torrent, never looks back
Ben JonsonThink not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
William Davenant
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